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From: edotto@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Otto)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Mission Map question
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.182351.17385@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 18:23:51 GMT
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freed@nss.FIDONET.ORG (Bev Freed) writes:

>The brackets indicate the day/night terminators.  I'll probably get this backwards because it's been a while since I used them, but: 
> 
>      [ = beginning orbital night
>      ] = beginning orbital day
> 
>They are located on the orbital track.

Nope.  The indicate the part of orbit where the shuttle is OUT OF DIRECT
SUNLIGHT.

Orbital night is when the crew sleeps.  NOT the same thing.

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