[Chaos-l] solid rocket booster recovery ships put to sea

[Tony Rice]

Yup, the ships get outside the range as they head out to the splashdown zone.

The clock has been held since 10am this morning and will resume at
11:20pm tonight.  There are 4 more holds in the countdown left (T -6
and 3 hours and T-30 and T-9 minutes).  Most scrubs happen in the last
hold due to weather so it's a particularly tense one for all those
people who traveled down to Florida to watch the launch.

Gory details on the count are here:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/fdf/134count.html


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Terry Crook <terrycrook at earthlink.net> wrote:
> The Freedom Star showed up earlier tonight, not far from shore altho' two
> objects were indicated.
> Now, 10:20 pm EDT, nothing is indicated!
> Out of range? I expanded out to include far out to sea (all of Florida shown
> as well as ~six times it's width to the east)!
> "No targets shown"
>
> All action at the Cape is still on "scheduled hold" until 11 hrs before
> launch, apparently.
>
> Taurus Terry in Chapel Hill
> 35° 55' 47"N, 79° 01' 00"W
>
>
> On 4/28/2011 4:11 PM, Tony Rice wrote:
>>
>> The Liberty Star and Freedom Star, the two NASA ships which recover
>> the solid rocket boosters after they separate from the shuttle stack
>> about 2 minutes after launch, put to sea a few minutes ago.  You can
>> track them using this interface, similar to they way airliners are
>> tracked on other sites:
>>
>> http://utprosim.com/kscdashboard/maritime.html
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