What is the source of the water? Power units? Dishwashing? > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Deak [mailto:dan.deak@sympatico.ca] > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 10:36 PM > To: SeeSat > Subject: Shuttle water dump > > > Hello everyone, > > I, and many on this list, have seen water dumps by shuttles. Now I've just seen > one live on NASA TV starting at 06:15 UT, March 9. It was like my head was near > the nozzle as the view was from the camera mounted on the arm's end effector. > The small nozzle is located on the port side of the orbiter behind and below the > hatch. The spray of water moved at high speed and was hard to detect. We could > see small ice particles coming off quite often from around the nozzle. > > When seen from ground these dumps are impressive and it amazes me that water > particles so small can be so easy to see. The spray was directed opposite the > velocity vector. This dump lasted for about 12 minutes. > > I always wanted to know where this water was coming out from and I got my answer > tonight. The nozzle was easier to see on TV than in my binoculars :-) > > Dan > -- > Daniel Deak > representant, projet spatial Starshine > Drummondville, Quebec > > COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 > > Site en francais sur les satellites: > French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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