Reposted from the SeeSat List. Night-time launch tonight. Main NASA shuttle page at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html sadly contains the full list of remaining shuttle launches before shuttle retirement: › STS-128 › STS-129 › STS-130 › STS-131 › STS-132 › STS-133 › STS-134 Some promising overpasses: SHUTTLE Mon Aug 31/05:47 AM 3 30 10 above NW 28 above NE SHUTTLE Tue Sep 01/04:39 AM 1 16 15 above N 15 above NNE SHUTTLE Tue Sep 01/06:12 AM 6 86 10 above NW 10 above SE SHUTTLE Wed Sep 02/05:03 AM 3 31 25 above N 11 above E SHUTTLE Thu Sep 03/05:28 AM 4 81 43 above WNW 10 above SE SHUTTLE - Kurt --------------------------------- Repost from the SeeSat List. --------------------------------- Good evening, NASA has posted the predicted TLEs for the first days of the STS-128 mission on this page : http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP... As usual the TLE for the coasting arc between MECO and OMS-2 firing has to be corrected and should be something like : STS-128 MECO 1 00128U 09044A 9237.24067130 .01000000 16736-2 20000-3 0 17 2 00128 51.6403 312.9029 0133919 349.7467 68.1002 16.47936766 17 Launch is targeted at 05:36:05 UTC on Tuesday morning (Aug. 25). The observers in Europe won't be able to see the ET flying along with Discovery because of daylight. Here in North America, observers along the east coast and Maritime provinces in Canada should have a nice show. Daniel Deak --------------------------------- A CBS reporter's background handbook on the mission STS128. Very depth - 150 pages - large download: http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/downloads.html Direct url: http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/srh/SRH_128_small.pdf ---------------------------------