Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!ucsd!rutgers!mailrus!bcm!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Any orbital elements available? Summary: San Francisco is too far north Message-ID: <1933@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 30 Sep 88 15:17:57 GMT References: <2493@pixar.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Distribution: na Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 18 In article <2493@pixar.UUCP> brighton@pixar.UUCP (Bill Carson) writes: >Failing that, does anyone know if the ground track will take it over >the San Francisco area (date and time would be appreciated too :-) The orbits only go ar far north as 28.5 degrees. San Francisco is about 38 degrees. In short: no way. Discovery will never even go directly over Houston. From what I can tell, it will come closest to you (due south) on orbits 18, 49, 80, and 34, 65, 96 (remember that it's scheduled to re-enter on orbit 64). I'm too lazy to try and figure out what day and time that will be, but the chart does have METs for those orbits if you really want to know. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University