Lift-off is scheduled for 2006 Sep 06 at 16:28:51 UTC. Spaceflight Now reports that the weather forecast is a 70 percent probability of GO for launch: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts115/status.html NASA's estimated elements are available at the following URL. They take into account all planned manoeuvres, and are revised throughout the mission, as required. http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orb it/SHUTTLE/SVPOST.html For quick reference, I have extracted the elsets from MECO through docking. 1. Sep 06, 16:40:05 UTC (MECO) - Sep 06, 17:07:58 UTC 1 99999U 6249.69450450 .01000000 00000-0 44129-6 0 09 2 99999 51.6319 128.0941 0132743 348.7559 72.2002 16.48582173 06 NOTE: NASA's MECO 2-line elset is erroneous; so I generated the above by converting NASA's True of Day Rotating (TDR) [aka Earth-Fixed Greenwich (EFG)] Cartesian state vector to SGP4, using Ken Ernandes' VEC2TLE program, and added realistic decay terms for the brief duration of existence of the orbit. Our web site has a link to Ken's program: http://www.satobs.org/orbsoft.html#Other 2. Sep 06, 17:07:58 - Sep 07, 08:01:20 UTC 1 99115U 06249.74528309 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9011 2 99115 51.6319 127.8110 0040243 337.4341 22.5079 16.25889917 23 3. Sep 07, 08:01:20 UTC - Sep 07, 19:44:10 UTC 1 99115U 06250.35986979 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9022 2 99115 51.6312 124.4085 0030363 333.0195 26.9414 16.23856544 121 4. Sep 07, 19:44:10 UTC - Sep 08, 08:31:01 UTC 1 99115U 06250.85261696 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9030 2 99115 51.6319 121.6878 0085806 192.0432 167.8694 15.97505489 209 5. Sep 08, 08:31:01 UTC - Sep 08, 10:02:06 UTC 1 99115U 06251.41636687 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9040 2 99115 51.6311 118.7027 0008894 268.5010 91.5137 15.77929998 294 6. Sep 08, 10:02:06 UTC - Sep 08, 11:18:59 UTC 1 99115U 06251.47976563 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9057 2 99115 51.6324 118.3761 0010222 311.7382 48.2908 15.76253038 301 7. Sep 08, 11:18:59 UTC - Sep 08, 11:23:46 UTC 1 99115U 06251.47976324 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9063 2 99115 51.6327 118.3764 0012334 314.0350 45.9797 15.75800394 306 8. Sep 08, 11:23:46 UTC 1 99115U 06252.49442390 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9078 2 99115 51.6319 113.1501 0012423 317.9229 42.0980 15.75848612 469 Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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