Brad Young wrote: > Pardon my orbital ignorance, but wouldn't a scrub mean they would just > continue their present orbit, slowly falling further behind ISS (since still > higher) until de-orbit burn less than an hour before landing? So, > practically speaking, look for ISS and wait, similar path a few minutes > later? This is an excerpt from the "CBS Space News" mailing list sent out by William Harwood: astronaut Dominic "Tony" Antonelli radioed [Atlantis]... "At Edwards, the winds are going to pick up. So what we've come up with is in about three hours, we're going to do an 11-foot-per second (rocket firing) and what that's going to do for us is pull in an earlier Edwards opportunity" so it would seem that, after the rocket firing, Atlantis will be arriving along its orbit earlier than the current elements would predict. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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