Re: What the......the Shuttle can't be in space over new years day?

Jorge R. Frank wrote:
The subject line "can't be in space over new years day" is an alarmist
exaggeration. The shuttle continues to fly just fine after the rollover,
but it will reject uplinks from MCC because the timetags are bad. Normally
I'd blame the press for this but there's nothing in the Yahoo article
(other than failure by omission) to suggest this.

It's one of about a dozen articles I read before posting. Basically,
they haven't done it (the reload) so they aren't going to try it in
space if they don't have to. If they won't fly over new years because
of a self-imposed rule, they essentially can't fly without violating
the rule. There are lots of risk-reduction rules that they adhere to
that can prevent flight. A boat in the wrong place in the range can
prevent flight. That means the shuttle can't fly with a boat in the
range - a perfectly reasonable rule. This rule seems to me to mean the
same thing - the shuttle can't be in space over new years. It's not a
physical limit, it's a NASA rule in response to a software limit. It
still prevents flight during that period.

Lee Jay

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