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From: dcorbett@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Dan Corbett)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: 17 inch Disconnect
Message-ID: <18203@ultima.cs.uts.oz>
Date: 20 Aug 90 08:13:21 GMT
References: <6996@alvin.mcnc.org>
Organization: Comp Sci, NSWIT, Australia
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rinne@mcnc.org (Glenn A. Rinne) writes:

>A quick question:
>How is the umbilical disconnect protected
>during re-entry?

	The umbilical ports are located above the wings.  Therefore the
wings prevent any really bad effects from re-entry.  Actually, protecting
them from launch effects is the worse problem.

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Dan Corbett
University of Technology, Sydney