I wonder if Friday's TDRS launch might provide any interesting sights for Eastern Hemisphere folks. The SpaceflightNow.com site has the launch timeline and ground tracks, and it looks to me like some of the events will be at night over west Africa and might be, if its high enough by that time, well-placed for South Africa: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac143/status.html The Centaur is supposed to burn all of its fuel, so there will not be a venting. The satellite has its own apogee kick motor or something like that, as the Centaur puts it into a transfer orbit. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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