At 09:26 15/01/00 , Dale Ireland wrote: >Does anyone know the azimuth for the scheduled launch of STS99, >tentatively >Jan. 31, 2000 at 12:47 p.m. EST, inclination 57 degrees >I mean is it being launched on an ascending path up the east coast or >descending to the southeast? Dale, using the pre-launch elset from Ken Enandes for the original launch back in spet 16, 1999 ( 1247UT), one can see that the orbit track after launch requires a North East launch azimuth. I imagine things cant have changed since then. I think there is a limit on inclinations for SE launches set by the constraint of not launching on a trajectory that overflies Cuba. By the looking at an atlas one may be able to do this for the MIR/ISS orbital inclination, but I suspect not for 57 degrees. In the first few years of the sixties I seem to remember the Cuban's complained about second stage debris from a 66 degree launch that landed in Cuba. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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