Shuttle Taking off at around 9pm......

For anyone that's interested, the shuttle's now in a highly elliptical orbit, that will mean it unless corrected, it will plunge at a sharp angle back into the atmosphere. What they're doing is waiting until they reach the peak of that orbit, when they will then fire the main engines and transform that elliptical orbit into a circle. Then they'll really be "in orbit"

Anyone here used orbiter? :)
 
Sorry for being pedantic, but they'll fire thrusters. They can't fire the main engines as the fuel supply for them is currently re-entering Earth's atmosphere and burning up. :)

seaviewuk, thanks for the tip. I'll try and catch it on 4oD. I do prefer recording them for real though as I'm not keen on stuff that's DRM'd to death. :/
 
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omg, i missed another launch.

I wen't to Florida in March and missed a shuttle launch by 24 hours as it wen't off the day before i left the UK. When we wen't to Kennedy a couple of days later it was all they talked about.
 
<De@thW!sh> said:
omg, i missed another launch.

I wen't to Florida in March and missed a shuttle launch by 24 hours as it wen't off the day before i left the UK. When we wen't to Kennedy a couple of days later it was all they talked about.
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Snap, In Feb this year, I was over the Atlantic on the way to Florida, missed by a few hours.

It was looking like bad weather the day before but it cleared up :mad:
 
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