Dale wrote: >Is there a set of preliminary elements for the shuttle that assume an >on-time lift off? I am interested in knowing how many minutes behind (or >ahead) of the ISS it may be around 5UT 3 July, about 10hrs before docking. The planned orbit elements are posted by NASA Human Space Flight on http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/elements in the form of state vectors and as equivalent TLEs. (The TLEs for Coasting Arc #1 are wrong but the others seem to be OK.) With these data I get a shuttle / ISS seperation of 48 km on 3-JUL-06, 5 UT which would see the shuttle trailing the ISS by some 6 or 7 seconds. Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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