[FPSPACE] One for the experts: Exp 9 night landing?

[Jim Oberg]

The orbital precession makes each day's pass, on average 24 minutes earlier.

The darkness landing was the result of the 5 days of delays caused by
the two Soyuz pre-launch technical problems.

But for that 5 day slip, the landing would have been half an hour
after local sunrise.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Anderman" <davida at cwo.com>
To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: [FPSPACE] One for the experts: Exp 9 night landing?


> It looks like Exp 9 landed at night. Why didn't the mission prolong a few
> days, and land after sunrise?
> 
> DWA
> 
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