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#280
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Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:02
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And this is the last picture. Short replay!
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#281
by
stockman
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:06
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Ford Mustang - 19/6/2007 4:02 PM
And this is the last picture. Short replay!
Is that a pulse cannon getting ready to shoot the Tie Fighter?
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#282
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Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:06
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Orbit 2 team is now in control.
Expedition 15 crew is now settling into the expected routine.
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#283
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Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:10
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Nice shot off the ISS.. Not sure if it's a loss of KU on the Shuttle, or if they are moving to the nosecap section of the survey.
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#284
by
Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:12
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Able to see a nice graphic of what is going on with the shuttle from the control room:
Looks like it's a loss of KU!
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#285
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Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:16
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#286
by
Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:27
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We have KU back!
EDIT: We have a go for nosecap altitude maneuver!
EDIT2: Great shot of the radiator!
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#287
by
Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:31
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#288
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DaveS
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:32
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Ford Mustang - 19/6/2007 10:27 PM
EDIT2: Great shot of the Payload Bay Door!
That's one of the radiator panels.
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#289
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Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:32
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Wonderful shot moving to the docking port and the crew cabin!
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#290
by
Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:32
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#291
by
Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:37
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#292
by
Martin.cz
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:39
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I have just seen ISS + Atlantis fly over, it was INCREDIBLE
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#293
by
Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:39
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#294
by
Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:45
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#295
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JimO
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:48
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Chris Bergin - 19/6/2007 2:34 PM
rsnellenberger - 19/6/2007 8:32 PM
Has there been any comments about giving those spots on the leading edge where they thought there might have been an impact (Day 3 or Day 4?) some extra attention, or is this just going to be the standard scan?
Yeah, all WLEDS (Wing Leading Edge Dectection System) "hits" are logged and they get to have a better look during this, but as mentioned at the time, the "hits" were so small they might of not even been "hits". It's such a sensitive system that a lot of things can set it off.
The max we saw over the mission was 1.5g and that's really nothing.
Be careful here -- as explained in those pressers, although 10 G's is the destructive force as measured in ground tests of objects impacting during relative velocities typical of launch phase, the official was commendably open-minded in pointing out that we DON'T know the 'G' signature of a dangerous impact at orbital speeds, characteristic of MMOD. Since they are so much faster, they can traverse the structure -- or more likely, vaporize -- in such a brief interval that the time-averaged 'G' picked up on a sensor could be very much lower -- and neighboring sensors might detect nothing. Historically, such past 'detections' have NOT been followed by visual in-flight or close-up post-flight detection of ANY damage, hence no impact was required to trigger those 'hit' signals. But treat these categories logically -- if there exists a phenemonon ("pseudo-impacts") that triggers low 'G' signals, it is NOT logical to conclude that ALL low 'G' signals are caused ONLY by that harmless phenomenon (especially since the on-orbit signature of a hypothesized damaging MMOD impact is NOT known).
Har-UMPH. :angry:
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#296
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Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:49
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1: Computer Graphic of what's going on, due to LOSS of COMM and LOS.
2: Party at the ISS control room!
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#297
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JimO
on 19 Jun, 2007 20:56
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Covault (AWST) has filed a story on the debris during separation. Most was small and typical, but "one piece appeared as large as an ironing board and was flapping, indicating it was cloth-like in nature." Has anybody got any better images, as well as the exact time of that sighting?
I've been passionate about spacecraft-generated debris for many years, and the very first ISS simulation, back about 1997, I scripted an object seen out the window -- it was scripted to be a fist-sized hunk of ice off a radiator leak -- and the crew (and Mission Control) were supposed to say -- "I wonder which direction it is going away," to determine if it might be coming BACK. Instead they oohed and aahed and said "look at that" a lot... but they learned, later.
There's been spacecraft-generated debris since there's been human spacecraft (John Glenn's 'fireflies', for starters), and -- yes :frown: -- there have been UFO buffs who adopted (and creatively adapted) those tales as alien visitors :laugh: and still do. But they also maintain a far more complete archive of crew and TV visual signtings of 'stuff' outside the spacecraft than NASA has ever bothered to do -- so I visited those sites a lot, even to the point of getting reprimanded for misuse of office computers one time :bleh: !!
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#298
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Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 21:01
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#299
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Ford Mustang
on 19 Jun, 2007 21:03
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