Re: Question: Availability of launch windows to ISS

From: Bill_T_Bard@raytheon.com
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 11:53:13 EDT

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Bill Cooke writes:
>Could someone please tell me often the orbital orientations are such that
a
>launch window is available for a launch from KSC to ISS?

The ISS orbital plane crosses KSC twice a day, one ascending (south to
north) and one descending (north to south). I believe KSC is not allowed to
launch on an azimuth for the descending passes so they only use the
ascending passes.

Bill Bard

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