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From: wats@scicom.alphacdc.com (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Vandenburg never to used?
Summary: Those DOD missions had low inclinations
Message-ID: <1099@scicom.alphacdc.com>
Date: 10 Oct 88 20:17:10 GMT
References: <41680@pyramid.pyramid.com: <22000004@m.cs.uiuc.edu:
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In article <22000004@m.cs.uiuc.edu:, kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
: 
: >Also, didn't one of the early military/shuttle flights of Columbia get
: >into a polar orbit?  I remember on one flight that it was possible for
: >people up here on the East Coast to "see" the shuttle as it flew over.
: 
: High-inclination, but not polar.  Ones that you might have seen at a
: fairly high latitude include
: 
: Flight	Date		Orbiter		Inclination	Notes
: 
: STS-1	4-12-81		Columbia	40.3	
: STS-2	11-12-81	Columbia	38.0	SIR-A
: STS-9	11-28-83	Columbia	57.0	SpaceLab 1
: 41-G	10-5-84		Challenger	57.0			(STS-13)
: 51-C	1-24-85		Discovery	 **	DoD		(STS-15)
: 51-B	4-29-85		Challenger	57.0	SpaceLab 3	(STS-17)
: 51-F	7-29-85		Challenger	50.0	SpaceLab 2	(STS-19)
: 51-J	10-3-85		Atlantis	 **	DoD		(STS-21)
: 61-A	10-30-85	Challenger	57.0	SpaceLab D-1	(STS-22)
: 
: ** - Orbital elements were not released.
: 
The Discovery STS-15 flight had an inclination of 28.4 degrees and the 
Atlantis STS-22 was at 28.5.  Source: TRW Space Log, Vol. 23, 1987.