Lift-off is scheduled for 2006 Sep 09 at 15:14:56 UTC. Spaceflight Now reports, "weather forecasters predict an 80 percent chance of acceptable conditions": 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 09, 15:25:25 UTC (MECO) - Sep 09, 15:54:45 UTC 1 99115U 6252.64265046 .01000000 00000-0 44263-6 0 02 2 99115 51.6321 112.5211 0132744 348.7786 69.0727 16.48569616 05 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 09, 15:54:45 UTC - Sep 09, 18:10:29 UTC 1 99115U 06252.69436307 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9015 2 99115 51.6324 112.2375 0042349 185.9994 174.0684 16.06469124 27 3. Sep 09, 18:10:29 UTC - Sep 10, 07:07:50 UTC 1 99115U 06252.81939306 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9027 2 99115 51.6356 111.5717 0023371 355.4991 4.5967 15.90714097 46 4. Sep 10, 07:07:50 UTC - Sep 10, 18:27:15 UTC 1 99115U 06253.32209355 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9039 2 99115 51.6324 108.9289 0020225 233.3453 126.5855 15.81453931 124 5. Sep 10, 18:27:15 UTC - Sep 11, 06:36:50 UTC 1 99115U 06253.82765735 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9044 2 99115 51.6331 106.2993 0016625 241.8410 118.1077 15.80358346 206 6. Sep 11, 06:36:50 UTC - Sep 11, 08:08:22 UTC 1 99115U 06254.33363069 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9056 2 99115 51.6319 103.6810 0010187 280.8234 79.1784 15.78001970 289 7. Sep 11, 08:08:22 UTC - Sep 11, 09:25:15 UTC 1 99115U 06254.39702786 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9066 2 99115 51.6331 103.3546 0010305 321.6398 38.4033 15.76328145 293 8. Sep 11, 09:25:15 UTC 1 99115U 06254.39702620 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9074 2 99115 51.6341 103.3549 0012227 325.9976 34.0403 15.75877614 293 Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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