from south texas -98.2 long at about 2300 local time about 5 years ago, sts was orange and the trail very visible west to east, indeed, I thought I could smell the trail, although I must admit that might have been my imagination or a neighbor burning who knows what. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 09/08/00 at 09:45 Rick.Baldridge@wj.com wrote: >Alexander Marschand wrote: > >Where will the re-entry of the Atlantis will be visible? I read that it will be >a cool night landing again. Maybe the re-entering will be very good visible, >because it's coming from west to east and it will maybe very good visible at the >dusk of west America or maybe in New Zealand, ><snip> > >_______________________ > >There is a lot of information at The Unofficial Space Shuttle Launch Guide by >Steven Pietrobon at: >http://home.tampabay.rr.com/k4lk/shuttxt.htm > >The NASA/Shuttle main page at: >http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/ >will usually post landing tracks a few days before landing. > >But to answer your question more directly -- >The Shuttle does not begin developing its ionization (plasma) wake until it is >about 7500km (4660 statute miles) from landing when it is below about 360,000 >feet altitude. I've seen four Shuttle reentries from California when the >Shuttle has been launched into a 39-degree inclination orbit, and the wake trail >is easily visible with the Shuttle 3900km from landing 2420 statute miles). But >according to reports from friends in Hawaii (where the Shuttle reentry on such >missions should also be visible) the trail is not developed that far out, or >faintly at best. Anyone else have more info on this subject? > > >RICK BALDRIDGE >37.27183N 121.97703W (SA-off!) >Campbell, CA > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ******************************************* Paul Gabriel 26.24310N 098.21635W 33m (the stars at night are big & bright......) gabriel305@earthlink.net titan / win95C / Calypso ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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