[amsat-bb] Re: ANDE-2 Deployment

Joe Fitzgerald jfitzgerald at alum.wpi.edu
Wed Jul 29 11:07:21 PDT 2009


>
> Looks as though the deployment from the shuttle didn't go ahead. They've
> been doing engine burns during the past minutes.
>
Looks like the deployment happens tomorrow about 17:22 UTC(Specifically
flight day 14 19:19:00 mission elapsed Time.) to allow for good radar
observations.

>From today's "Execute Package"


" ANDE‐2 Deploy was moved so that the deploy
may be observed by Millstone Hill, near MIT in
Boston."

I'll be at Fenway Park in Boston  at that time, so I guess I will have to
point my binoculars away from the baseball field and into the sky for a
minute!

see http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/373942main_fd14_exec_pkg.pdf

-Joe KM1P



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