A plot of a typical Shuttle/ISS launch up the eastern seaboard can be seen (per previous posts) at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=940828&a=2571482&p=38077270 A plot showing the Shuttle track over Europe with time ticks in seconds after launch can be seen at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=940828&a=2571482&p=38077273 And lastly, a very typical plot of the track across the sky as view from London, England can be seen at: http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=940828&a=2571482&p=38077263 This plot was for STS-98 -- ignore the star background and times, but the track relative to the green altitude and azimuth grid-lines is still basically correct with the Shuttle passing highest in the SSW sky about 21 minutes after launch. Rick Baldridge Campbell, CA USA 37.272N 121.977W -8UTC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Deak" <dan.deak@sympatico.ca> To: "SeeSat" <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:56 PM Subject: TLE for Discovery at T+20 min > Hello to all European observers, > > Here is the TLE for the beginning of the first orbit of Discovery on Thursday > night. Epoch is T+20 minutes, so it should be OK for those who want to try the > difficult observation of the Shuttle and its external tank since they will be in > shadow for most of the pass over Europe. Maybe those nearest the Atlantic will > be able to see something low to the west. > > STS-105 OMS-1 > 1 99105U 01221.95940793 .00071000 00000-0 10050-3 0 9005 > 2 99105 51.6355 177.8703 0134629 351.2267 8.6582 16.47181754 20 > > Don't forget these elements are valid only for an on-time launch at 21:38 UT. > > Dan > -- > Daniel Deak > representant, projet spatial Starshine > Drummondville, Quebec > > COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-4:00 > > Site en francais sur les satellites: > French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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