At 10:35 15/08/01 -0500, you wrote: >Max White wrote: > >"I thought waterdumps were not performed whilst docked, only on free flying >- >plus the water is used to top up the ISS tanks, so why dump it anyway?" > >In fact, water dumps are routinely performed while free flying AND while >attached to ISS. There was a contamination issue but that argument was >overcome. The Shuttle provides ISS all the water ISS can utilize; but ISS >now hands over its excess water for the Shuttle to dump. What will happen to >excess water on ISS when the Shuttle leaves is not clear right now. > >Paul > Paul, When a water dump occures, does this water vapourise immediately or does it freeze into ice particles ? If it forms ice particles, isn't that very dangerous for the ISS/Shuttle as for other satellites which are in low orbit ? Greetings, Tristan Cools tristan.cools@skynet.be Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) webmaster Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) Homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/index.htm BWGS homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/bwgs.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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