Re: Question: what is the SAA on the map showing orbital paths?
- From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 5 Aug 2005 23:19:02 GMT
On 2005-07-30, Chuck Stewart <zapkitty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 02:53:13 -0500, Matt Wiser wrote:
>
>> I've seen this on a orbital chart in the Space Shuttle
>> Operator's Manual and on the map in Mission Control in
>> Houston showing the SAA. The former calls it the South
>> Atlantic Anaomly. What exactly is it?
>> Just curious.
>
> The South Atlantic Anomaly is a place roughly above South
> America where the Earth's geomagnetic field allows the
> inner Van Allen Belt, which is normally weell above LEO,
> to dip down hundreds of miles _into_ LEO.
It's very slowly drifting west - given time it'll become the South
Pacific South Atlantic Anomaly, somewhat confusingly...
--
-Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
.
- Follow-Ups:
- Re: Question: what is the SAA on the map showing orbital paths?
- From: Pat Flannery
- Re: Question: what is the SAA on the map showing orbital paths?
- References:
- Question: what is the SAA on the map showing orbital paths?
- From: Matt Wiser
- Re: Question: what is the SAA on the map showing orbital paths?
- From: Chuck Stewart
- Question: what is the SAA on the map showing orbital paths?
- Prev by Date: Re: 'urban myth' of environmentalist cause of foam loss
- Next by Date: Re: Shuttle ET foam
- Previous by thread: Re: Question: what is the SAA on the map showing orbital paths?
- Next by thread: Re: Question: what is the SAA on the map showing orbital paths?
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
