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Wheel-Nut
09-21-06, 11:41 AM
Here is a cool link for you Ed and anyone else. Check out the landing video. :thumbup:

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sts115_front/index.html

Question:
I noticed the flight path brought the shuttle from the south Pacific, over Mexico, over the Gulf of Mexico to the Cape in Florida. Is this something new to avoid re-entry over populated areas due to the Columbia accident?
Ankf00
09-21-06, 11:47 AM
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0609/iss_sts115.jpg

new solar array



the brick returns:

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/SPACE_SHUTTLE.sff_KSC101_20060921065136.jpg
Ankf00
09-21-06, 01:04 PM
from a UT forum with a bunch of us NASA geeks:


The entry groundtracks are a function of orbital inclination, the landing site location, and the crossrange (distance left-or-right of the orbital groundtrack of the landing site).

Given the crew sleep periods, launch time, etc... these are very typical ISS mission (high inclination) groundtracks.

In the "old days" when we had lower inclination flights (satellite deployments, HST flights, spacelab missions, etc.), the entry ground tracks would be right over the Southern US (as was Columbia's last flight).
mapguy
09-21-06, 03:30 PM
from a UT forum with a bunch of us NASA geeks:

NASA. Nothing Ank Says Acknowledges with common sense.



BWAHAHAHAHA! I'm fooking hilarious.

















And yes, I am drunk.... :thumbup: :tony:
Ankf00
09-21-06, 03:53 PM
2:30?! You @#$@#$ ^#@$ing #@!$#@ !#@$#age :mad:
mapguy
09-21-06, 05:26 PM
2:30?! You @#$@#$ ^#@$ing #@!$#@ !#@$#age :mad:

Do I detect a hint of jealousy? Hmm...??? HAHA. I'm on the barley wine now! No worky tomorrow! Maybe a drunken call to Ank in the middle of the night is in order... :D
Ankf00
09-21-06, 05:28 PM
I'm here till 11 :( but at midnight it's dollar beers & cokewhores for everyone!! Hooray cokewhores! :)
ferrarigod
09-21-06, 09:24 PM
Hooray cokewhores!

Hooray beer!
http://derekstubbs.com/wp/images/redstripe.jpg
ferrarigod
09-21-06, 10:58 PM
In FL, sometimes the shuttle would break the sound barrier over my house on re-entry, and sometimes they wouldn't cause they would land from different directions.

So I don't believe there is 1 set pattern. I'll ask my friends and fam if they heard anything.
Ankf00
09-21-06, 11:46 PM
In FL, sometimes the shuttle would break the sound barrier over my house on re-entry, and sometimes they wouldn't cause they would land from different directions.

So I don't believe there is 1 set pattern. I'll ask my friends and fam if they heard anything.

http://www.offcamber.net/forums/showpost.php?p=169131&postcount=3
ferrarigod
09-22-06, 08:30 AM
http://www.offcamber.net/forums/showpost.php?p=169131&postcount=3


Your post from the UT people we beat in Austin doesn't necessarily equal that it won't happen again. Just that it hasn't happen on this past flight. That was my only point, and to share the goodness when it breaks the barrier over my families place.
Ankf00
09-22-06, 12:38 PM
and yet those UT people you beat in Austin have been working at JSC, some on console in mission control, for years while you're gator chompin' away :gomer:

I was responding to this:

So I don't believe there is 1 set pattern. I'll ask my friends and fam if they heard anything.
no, there isn't one set pattern, it's completely mission dependent and the inclination makes a great difference in descent vector, as described in the above post :gomer: yes, the descent vector over the southern US can happen again, no one said it won't ever happen again, on the contrary it was said that it would probably happen after a sattelite deployment, just that it won't happen for an ISS flight due to the inherent inclination. you obviously didn't understand the above post, but congratulations on the football result :tony: