Author Topic: LIVE: STS-120 Flight Day 16 - EOM - Re-entry and Landing (Read 103539 times)

ETEE · « **Reply #20 on:** 11/07/2007 01:55 pm »

Deorbit burn will be 215 fps (237 fps available from OMS).

DaveS · « **Reply #21 on:** 11/07/2007 01:59 pm »

Block 16, Middeck entry configuration completed.

Felix · « **Reply #22 on:** 11/07/2007 02:22 pm »

Camera on top of the VAB

Felix · « **Reply #23 on:** 11/07/2007 02:35 pm »

Generic Deorbit Prep Checklist

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #24 on:** 11/07/2007 02:35 pm »

Seems the airhorns at the SLF are down as two SUVs are on the runway beeping their horns to scare birds.

psloss · « **Reply #25 on:** 11/07/2007 02:38 pm »

Note about comm: just called up to the crew that comm should be good throughout, except for a period after entry interface until the vehicle is acquired by MILA. More specifically, it would be from just after the first roll reversal at Mach 19.4 until about Mach 10 and if I heard correctly, they'd be on the lower antenna in that period.

Edit, as PAO notes, that's for the first deorbit rev today.

Speedracer · « **Reply #26 on:** 11/07/2007 02:39 pm »

First roll should be over Nebraska, with cities such as Abie, Adams, Agnew, Ainsworth, Air Park, Albany, Albion, Alda, Alexandria, Algernon, Allen, Alliance, Alma, Almeria, Alvo, Amelia, Ames, Amherst, Anderson, Angora, Anselmo, Ansley, Antioch, Arapahoe, Arcadia, Archer, Arlington, Armada, Arnold, Arthur, Ash Grove, Ashby...