Hi Jorge,

Actually it depends on the intended inclination of the final orbits
elements. This launch was highly inclined and sent the flight over the
Atlantic for a much longer path than the more usual flights that
launched satellites in the past.

I think the ET was dumped early just before or past the Canary Islands
in this case.

Have you sewn any hackenkreuz armbands for yourself yet? Bought any
brown shirts lately? Stood on any streetcorners?

You're obviously good at distributing misinformation.

Thanks,

Rick

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.