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From: kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle roll maneuver
Message-ID: <28812@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 89 07:57:50 GMT
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Sender: kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien)
Reply-To: kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien)
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>David Palkowski writes:
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>> orbital penetration. Question that nags me though, is why not
>> position the shuttle and launch assembly so the maneuver can be
>> eliminated all togeather ? 

Just out of curiosity, if the pad were designed to change orientation,
what is the latest, relative to launch time, that the pad's orientation
could be changed?  I ask only because the DOD seems to be very paranoid
about people knowing what they're doing, and the pad's orientation, with
no shuttle roll, would give a big hint as to where the shuttle was going.



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