(meteorobs) Shuttle re-entry as fireball reception experiment

[Swift, Wesley]

Marco,

	Not so.  THere are two nodes for each orbit:  ascending and
decendicg.   The reentry over Yucatan is ascending while one coming over the
US and Canada would be decending.

Wes

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[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Marco Langbroek
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 9:16 AM
To: Dale; Global Meteor Observing Forum
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Shuttle re-entry as fireball reception experiment


>   Hi.Thomas
>   The shuttle reenter will come in over the
>   Yucatan,going into a landing at the Cape.There will be
>   no more reenters of the U.S because of safety
>   concerns.
>   Regards
>   Thomas Dorman
>   Horizon City,Texas

I actually think, and this has also been noted by Stephan Szyman on the
SeeSat list, that it is connected to the fact that it is a mission coming
from the ISS and hence in an 51.6 degree orbital plane inclination. This
makes an approach to the Cape over the US impossible. So, safety concerns
yes, in the sense that out of safety concern other missions than to ISS
would no longer be made. No deliberate plot to keep a Shuttle from entering
over the US though.

Shuttle state vectors for planned trajectories can be found here:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/
orbit/SHUTTLE/SVPOST.html

- Marco

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