Dale
As an example of what Brent just wrote, if you go to Patrick's web site http://planet.state.ut.us and scroll down to International Space Station Data and the select Salt Lake City you will see that the Space Station like the Shuttle comes over Utah on different orbits.
|
SATELLITE |
LOCAL |
DURATION |
MAX ELEV |
APPROACH |
DEPARTURE |
|
|
DATE/TIME |
(MIN) |
(DEG) |
(DEG-DIR) |
(DEG-DIR) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISS |
Thr Feb 06/07:44 PM |
< 1 |
13 |
10 above NNW |
13 above NNW |
|
ISS |
Fri Feb 07/06:46 PM |
3 |
13 |
10 above NNW |
11 above NE |
|
ISS |
Sat Feb 08/07:23 PM |
2 |
22 |
11 above NNW |
22 above N |
|
ISS |
Sun Feb 09/06:25 PM |
4 |
16 |
10 above NNW |
10 above ENE |
|
ISS |
Mon Feb 10/07:03 PM |
4 |
36 |
10 above NW |
30 above ENE |
|
ISS |
Tue Feb 11/07:45 PM |
< 1 |
51 |
39 above W |
51 above SW |
|
ISS |
Wed Feb 12/06:49 PM |
5 |
74 |
23 above NW |
13 above ESE |
|
ISS |
Thr Feb 13/07:32 PM |
2 |
23 |
23 above SW |
10 above S |
|
ISS |
Fri Feb 14/06:37 PM |
3 |
49 |
49 above SW |
11 above SE |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Which, by the way, the space station will be visible tonight for 5 minutes.
Jim
Brent Watson <brentjwatson@yahoo.com> wrote:
I don't think the re-entry path was atypical. The
shuttle has passed over s. Utah several times for
landing at Kennedy. This was the second time I have
seen it, and I believe Patrick has seen it three times
now. (Patrick?) The path is whatever it is depending
on where in the earth/orbit relation the orbiter is
when it de-orbits. I have looked at many re-entry
tracks, and they are not the same.
Brent
--- Dale Hooper wrote:
> There is something that I have been really curious
> about that I haven't seen mentioned (please forgive
> me if I somehow just missed it). We know that the
> shuttle was following an atypical reentry track -
> because we were able to observe it over southern
> Utah. I'm wondering if this reentry profile
> presents times when there are greater stresses on
> the orbiter than a typical reentry profile? I.e.,
> more severe banking that might overly stress an
> already somewhat damaged wing; which wouldn't have
> caused a failure in a more typical reentry profile.
>
> Certainly, this wouldn't be a root cause - but might
> be a contributing factor. Obviously, I've entered
> into second tier speculation.
>
>
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