[retired_gitfresh]

I love seeing storm pictures from above like that. :thup:

[retired_jshendel]

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html

Type s'torm 'in there, you will find loads of them

[retired_jshendel]

My ' are in the wrong place

[retired_gitfresh]

Originally posted by Paul Bacon:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html

Type s'torm 'in there, you will find loads of them

Excellent. Some great ones on there

[miraage]

The shuttle is on it's way down. Landing in around half an hour, I think.

[retired_dazialee1]

Landing in about 10 miniutes for all those interested.....

[retired_barbie34]

Visual Contact :cool:

[retired_burnthefat]

Sound not matching the pictures

Good landing, and great pictures as usual.

[retired_jkrausse]

Originally posted by Luke99:
How do they work an elliptical geosynchronous orbit? Surely it's quite difficult to have it remaining at the same point above Earth

Each orbit has a diferent velocity needed to maintain it

as you get further from the earth the velocity needed to maintain the orbit increases, but as you are traveling further the time taken to do one orbit also increases

At the orbital height of the shuttle / iss, one orbit takes 90mins or so

at Geostationary orbit, one orbit takes 24hours,

as the eath also takes 24 haours to rotate, when seen from the ground, a satelite in geostationary orbit appears to hover over a single point on the equator

[retired_gitfresh]

Only ended up seeing what they showed of the landing on News 24. I totally forgot about it/ had only just woken up