For those of you on the west coast of the USA, a Minotaur IV vehicle will be making its inaugural orbital flight from SLC-8 at VAFB tomorrow, 9/25. Launch window is from 9:41pm PDT to 9:55. Details at: http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/sbss/status.html If you are familiar with SKYMAP trajectory plots, below is the rocket's trajectory based on information given at: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/satellite/MissionBook.pdf Minotaur IV SBSS Skymap trajectory file The format of the numbers below is: Seconds after launch Latitude Longitude Altitude(km) 0 34.5763 -120.6324 0.11 38 34.5121 -120.6497 10.77 58 34.3793 -120.6853 25.00 117 33.2391 -120.9867 88.65 132 32.7518 -121.1130 106.58 156 31.9109 -121.3277 133.88 207 29.4741 -121.9283 192.08 695 1.8450 -127.469 534.34 761 -2.0581 -128.1762 540.88 880 -9.5459 -129.5486 541.73 The vehicle will NOT enter sunlight during any portion of powered flight. However, a nearly full moon may lend some interesting effects on the wake plume from the 4 solid rocket motors. If you live within 200 miles of Vandenberg , it will be worth the effort to observe and take photographs. Rick Baldridge Campbell, CA N37.27 W121.98 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100924/b5193f16/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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