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Posted by Herb Schaltegger on July 1, 2006, 10:24 am
Please log in for more thread options On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 08:38:56 -0500, John wrote
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> Craig Cocca wrote:
>> Jim Oberg wrote:
>>> Can anybody share with us the MET points that abort
>>> modes transition from RTLS to TAL to ATO?
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>> You can find the abort boundries at:
>> http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts121/fdf/121ascent.html
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> Interesting . . . to read the chart there is no overlap between the
> abort modes. I read an Aviation Week article about the use of the
> Low-Q ascent, and the NASA person interviewed made a point of saying
> that while the abort milestones had changed, there was overlap.
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> Anyone know more on this . . . I suspect the overlap does exist; they
> just picked a Mission Elapsed Time to go from one to the next.
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> Godspeed Discovery
>
> John
>
I'm sure JRF would know more but I'd say he's probably too busy to pay
much attention to the newsgroups for the next couple of days.
--
Herb
"Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which,
unfortunately, no one we know belongs."
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> modes transition from RTLS to TAL to ATO?