[FPSPACE] ISS gains altitude today -- uh, how?
James Oberg
jameseoberg at comcast.net
Sun Mar 29 18:51:16 EDT 2009
>From today's On-Orbit Status Report:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/iss_reports/index.htm
"Mean altitude gain in the last 24 hours -- 15 m "
Huh?
This happens during shuttle docked ops with thruster cross-coupling (attitude burns also impart small translational forces), or deliberate thrusting -- but a day after a Soyuz docking? Was there some propulsive event I haven't heard of?
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