Paul J Henney wrote : > > As the shuttle faded I counted at least 3 > > "emissions" looking like the coma of a bright comet. I assume these were > > firings of the OMS? If it was of short duration like about 1 second, it is RCS thrusters firings used to keep the Shuttle in the proper attitude. They fire often at this phase of flight. I have seen one such firing while the Shuttle was in darkness and it matches your description. Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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