If weather cooperations and Nauka doesn't do anything odd again, Boeing Space will launch Orbital Flight Test 2 of the CST-100 Starliner, an uncrewed mission to the ISS. Launch is at 17:20 UT from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral. This is an estimated elset for the first (suborbital) part of the trajectory: CST-100 STARLINER for launch at 3 Aug 2021 17:20:00 1 70000U 21999A 21215.72222223 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 03 2 70000 051.6100 108.0733 0083547 058.9095 310.7056 16.54638603 01 Map: https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/1422495165768421376?s=20 Observers in the Near/Middle East (e.g. Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Saoudi-Arabia) might be able to observe the Centaur venting fuel some 26-30 minutes after launch. the Centaur upper stage will reenter southwest of Australia around 18:15 UT. South European observers might be able to observe Starliner on the second revolution, but it will be late and at higher altitude than the elset above implies, as it will have manoeuvered into a higher, proper orbit by then. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam_at_langbroek.org launchtower: http://launchtower.langbroek.org Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Aug 03 2021 - 05:08:13 UTC
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