Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!dieter
From: dieter@rwthinf.UUCP (Dieter Kreuer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Why STS-35 is being launched at night.
Summary: question about orbits
Message-ID: <2939@rwthinf.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 90 16:53:16 GMT
References: <6282.266023d3@jetson.uh.edu> <1990May28.153022.20010@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: RBI - RWTH Aachen
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In article <1990May28.153022.20010@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

> This fits with the night launch.  From a northern launch site, a night
> launch into low-inclination orbit gives you an orbit with its northern
> end on the night side of the Earth and its southern end on the day side.
> -- 

For how long is this orientation of the orbit stable (it is certainly 
perturbed by Sun, Moon, atmospheric deceleration, revolution of Earth
around Sun etc.)? I don't doubt that it will be stable for the whole STS-35
mission, I'm just curious about how big these impacts might be.

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