Hi Roger, You are correct on the ISS location at Atlanta launch. The Shuttle will catch up to the ISS, but it will take a few orbits, not sure how many though. Maybe someone else has that information. The altitude adjustment will be made with on-board rockets. -Fred ________________________________ From: Roger <roger.in.eugene@gmail.com> To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org Sent: Fri, May 14, 2010 2:00:57 PM Subject: shuttle and iss Not sure if someone covered this before. When the shuttle launched, the ISS was over the south Pacific. According to my sat-track program, the ISS was about 25 minutes away from FL. How does the shuttle 'catch-up' to the ISS? Does it adjust it's orbit so it's slower and let the ISS pass it? Or does the shuttle adjust it's orbit so it's faster and literally catch-up to the ISS? What sort of orbit differences are we talking about to get the two in the same vicinity? Thanks. Roger _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100514/b459f598/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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