Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ksr!clj
From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Why STS-35 is being launched at night.
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Date: 29 May 90 01:57:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: cheehh@jetson.uh.edu

In article <6282.266023d3@jetson.uh.edu>, cheehh@jetson writes:
>
>  I was wondering why Columbia was being launched at night [...]
>
>  Apparently, the telescopes aboard Astro-1 will be at their best in
>the "night" phases on the orbit.  Also, they will be unable to function
>while the shuttle is in the North Atlantic Anomaly (NAA).  
That's South Atlantic Anamoly (SAA), a region where the inner Van Allen
radiation belt is relatively close to the earth.
>						    Does anyone have
>any comments/corrections about this?
Yup.