Re: Shuttle Inclination Trivia

"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Dale" <drc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:19:03 GMT, "Greg D. Moore wrote:

"Jorge R. Frank" wrote:

"Danny Deger" wrote:

The shuttle has once in its history, launched in an inclination lower
than KSC latitude. What was the inclination and why did it launch
into this inclination?

I take it I'm disqualified from answering? :-)

Yes. Read the fine print in his send.

"Members of NASA, their family members and anyone associated with USA in
anyway are excluded. See attached contest rules. No purchase necessary.
This trivia contest not valid in some states.. etc etc..."

So, why didn't you give it a shot? Are you one of them too? :)

Maybe STS-49, going up to get Intelsat VI?

Looks like it from Jenkin's. Not much of a change though...


Dale


STS-49 - mainden flight of Endeavour
http://uu.cx/flight/49/

Intelsat VI F-3, was launched aboard a Titan III from Cape Canaveral March
14, 1990.
http://www.geo-orbit.org/easthemipgs/intel6spec.html
However, the second stage of the booster failed to separate from the craft
and its perigee motor. INTELSAT controllers commanded the spacecraft to
separate from the combined booster stage and perigee motor, allowing the
satellite to be placed in low, but nonoperational, Earth orbit.
It remained there for two years, until the first flight of the space shuttle
Endeavour in May 1992.

INTELSAT had contracted with NASA for the mission, during which three
astronauts captured the satellite and attached a new perigee motor to take
it to its proper orbit.
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bss/factsheets/376/intelsat_vi_f3/intelsat_vi_f3.html
Hughes provided the motor, hardware, and technical assistance for the
mission.

The F-3 satellite was put into service over the Atlantic Ocean at 325.5
degrees East in July 1992, in time to carry television coverage of the
Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.



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