I believe that I have found the shuttle pass in the summer of 2001 during which Kurt Russell and his son observed a water dump. Here is the ephemeris: 14/ 8/ 1 19:00 - 24:00 UTC J2000.0 EL > 15 Kurt Russell ISS 98067A 25544 Bull = 346 Kurt Russell SGP4 Age = -0.1 d Unc = 0 s ( 50%) Src = 0 TIME %I Mvv AZ EL R.A. DEC FE VANG RANGE ALT -------- -- ---- --- -- -------- --------- ---- ---- ----- ----- 21:02:58 26 2.0 264 15 13:49:33 07:54:41 4.0 0.26 1183 402 21:03:27 33 1.3 257 19 14:22:10 06:03:32 3.8 0.33 1040 402 21:03:50 40 0.8 249 22 14:53:41 03:52:34 3.7 0.40 943 402 21:04:09 46 0.3 241 24 15:23:53 01:30:44 3.5 0.45 878 402 21:04:25 53 0.0 233 26 15:52:08 -00:52:25 3.4 0.50 837 402 21:04:40 59 -0.2 224 27 16:20:36 -03:23:08 3.2 0.53 811 402 21:04:54 65 -0.4 216 27 16:48:21 -05:53:03 3.1 0.55 800 402 21:05:08 71 -0.6 208 27 17:16:35 -08:25:22 2.9 0.55 801 402 21:05:22 77 -0.7 200 27 17:44:32 -10:53:20 2.8 0.53 814 402 21:05:28 EP 79 -0.7 197 26 17:55:38 -11:50:43 2.7 0.52 823 402 21:05:36 EU 82 -0.7 192 26 18:11:48 -13:12:29 2.7 0.50 840 402 The detailed timeline shows a waste water dump scheduled for the period 19:55 UTC to 21:05 UTC: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-105/timeline/fd05det.pdf Kurt was fortunate to catch the final minutes of the scheduled dump, as did Leo Barhorst and others: http://satobs.org/seesat/Aug-2001/0203.html The SeeSat-L archives for 2001 Aug contain more than one thread on this event, and water dumps in general. > in short, my questions are: Are water dumps scheduled? If so, is the > schedule available to the public? If so, can anybody out > there point me in > the right direction? They are scheduled, and the above shuttle timeline site is the best source known to me; however, the detailed timelines are posted on the day in question, and sometimes well into the day, so it is possible to receive the information too late. I believe that someone should make a special effort to find a reliable source of water dump schedules with sufficient lead time, say 12 hours minimum, to facilitate posting alerts on SeeSat-L. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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