[amsat-bb] STS launch - to whom it may concern...

[Udo Schneider <uschndr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For those people who are still believing that at launch time ISS
must be near the launch site:

>KSC RELEASE NO. 56 - 02
>
>SHUTTLE MISSION STS-111 LAUNCH TIME ANNOUNCED FOR LAUNCH ON JUNE 5
>
>        Following the successful replacement and retest of a faulty gaseous
>nitrogen regulator valve on the left Orbital Maneuvering System pod of the
>Shuttle Endeavour, NASA mission managers have set the launch of Mission
>STS-111 for Wednesday, June 5. The preferred launch time is 5:22:48 p.m.
>EDT.

5:22:48 p.m. EDT  ==>  21:22:48 UTC Launch time
===============================================

At that moment ISS is on the other side of the globe, near the west coast
of Australia, nearly antipodal, ca. 50 minutes away from the launch site...

73, Udo, DL7OL ***

P.S. BTW, the estimation of my program STS2ISS is 21:22 UTC because
     it prints only rounded minutes, the "internal" value is 21:22:23;
     25 seconds of difference 8-)



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