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Article #6270Atlantis's 62-degree inclination
From: Bruce Watson
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 20:36
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 20:36
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No one responded to the earlier postings of preliminary orbital elements based on the Av week information. CNN is repoorting roughly the same thing by mentioning that observers along the East coast should be a good show since the flight azimuth required for a 62-degree inclination will take the shuttle quite near (or over) the Cape Hatteras area. We can't know yet if a waiver was granted to exceed the 57-degree limit. The question is: Could it be that Atlantis will go into a 57-deg and the KH-12 (or whatever) will go from there to 62-deg? I realize that I'm talking about a lot of energy for inclination changes, but this is possibility that apparently has not been addressed. The first abort site may be Norfolk, VA.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!pikes!udenva!isis!scicom!wats From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Atlantis's 62-degree inclination Keywords: 57-degrees was the max Message-ID: <3197@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM> Date: 26 Feb 90 20:36:40 GMT Organization: Alpha Science Computer Networks, Denver, Co. Lines: 14