> The part that was lost is a Portable Attachment Device (PAD). It has > a "Y" shape > and measures about a foot. It is bolted near the end of the canadarm > (near the > End Effector) to permit installation of the Portable Foot Restraint > used by the > astronauts to secure themselves to the arm when working somewhere > outside the > station. The PAD was lost by Jim Voss at 06:40 UT on March 11 and > has just been > catalogued by USSC : > > STS 102 DEB (PAD) > 1 26723U 01010B 01074.55648196 .00110714 00000-0 10983-2 0 20 > 2 26723 51.5708 200.7266 0006133 218.1790 249.1306 15.64919147 497 Any guess on the magnitude of this object? A NASA report dated 3.5 hours old said that this object is 20 miles (32.186 kilometers; when will NASA *finally* go metric???) below and in front of the shuttle-station complex. That would about 230 miles (uh, 370.15 kilometers) in altitude. ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.geocities.com/tlj18_99/ 5 hours behind UT (-5) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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