With Google Earth, I plotted the three NOTAM boxes. They clearly define a great circle path to the southwest that includes the SLC-3 launch site. The azimuth is 222.3 degrees. After extending that line through the equator, I measured the heading from the equator crossing as 213.5 degrees. That's an inclination of 123.5 degrees, reasonably matching Ted's calculations. So what hazard do each of the boxes represent? There were no SRBs on this flight, so there would be no impact areas for them. The closest box is probably for an early launch abort near the pad. The second is probably the payload fairing impact area, and the third would be the first stage impact area. Phil _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Sep 21 2010 - 21:10:35 UTC