In a message dated 3/7/01 11:49:01 PM Central Standard Time, avitek@lib.cas.cz writes: << Therefore ISS and Mir are flying in different planes, divided by such an amount of degrees in RA of ascending node (exast number se TLEs), that it is impossible now (and also in the future) to transfer any tiny piece of Mir to the ISS. >> No need to speculate. I led the orbital design teams in 1996-1997 that selected the relative orbital path of ISS relative to Mir. It was on request of the Russian side, so that their tracking stations could have time to perform all passes for one station, then mechanically reconfigure for passes of the other station. This was agreed on by Khrunichev and Energia specialists -- Nikolay Ganzen and Ludmilla Chaikina -- and also happened to make station-to-station transfers impossible. But it was NOT decreed by NASA. This subject in fact will be explained in a chapter of my new book, "Star-Crossed Orbits: The US/Russian Space alliance", McGraw-Hill, October 2001. Jim O www.jamesoberg.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
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