Lift-off is scheduled for 2006 Sep 08 at 15:40:37 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 08, 15:51:06 UTC (MECO) - Sep 08, 16:19:43 UTC 1 99999U 6251.66048611 .01000000 00000-0 44275-6 0 03 2 99999 51.6315 117.9773 0132748 348.7800 69.0699 16.48567837 02 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 08, 16:19:43 - Sep 09, 07:13:18 UTC 1 99115U 06251.71178045 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9019 2 99115 51.6315 117.6911 0041595 337.9111 22.0286 16.26236849 22 3. Sep 09, 07:13:18 UTC - Sep 09, 18:58:10 UTC 1 99115U 06252.32623186 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9029 2 99115 51.6308 114.2873 0032223 334.2106 25.7475 16.24367629 126 4. Sep 09, 18:58:10 UTC - Sep 10, 07:45:32 UTC 1 99115U 06252.81874902 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9038 2 99115 51.6315 111.5655 0088383 205.8758 153.7985 15.97945037 207 5. Sep 10, 07:45:32 UTC - Sep 10, 09:16:38 UTC 1 99115U 06253.38236996 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9047 2 99115 51.6308 108.5788 0009761 277.1879 82.8176 15.77986834 292 6. Sep 10, 09:16:38 UTC - Sep 10, 10:33:31 UTC 1 99115U 06253.44576721 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9058 2 99115 51.6321 108.2522 0010410 318.6189 41.4185 15.76308255 305 7. Sep 10, 10:33:31 UTC 1 99115U 06253.44576491 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9063 2 99115 51.6325 108.2524 0012479 321.9297 38.0984 15.75851400 308 Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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