Jorge R. Frank wrote:
Dan Foster wrote in
:


From:

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/new...e/2005/07/1047
_am.html

Says (paraphrased) that ET breaks up and ultimately ends in bits in
the Atlantic Ocean.

Is the location accurate?

Early in the program, it was dumped in the Indian Ocean... then later,
just west of Hawai'i? And now the Atlantic Ocean?


It's not accurate. It's dumped in the Pacific.


Is location, assuming ET SEP at roughly same time every mission, a
function of the orbital inclination?


That, and the MECO altitude targets.



Always wondered.....in the case of a VAFB SLC6 launch into polar orbit,
where would the ET end up ?