Re: STS 86 OBS

Neil Clifford (clifford@astro.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 12:52:20 +0100 (BST)

|>two. Does the ET have small rocket motors that fire for a few seconds to
|>move it away from the orbiter? I was not expecting to see any prolonged
|>light from seperation.

The orbiter usually performs a small maneuver (using the RCS jets I
guess) after ET seperation to (a) avoid collision and (b) photo and
document its state.

rgeards,

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Neil Clifford                                       <neil@satellite.eu.org>
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