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To: Wolfstar
Have they recovered the black Box yet?

Doesn't have one???

Why not???

269 posted on 02/03/2003 7:29:28 PM PST by fightu4it (oil at market prices. not extorsion by a murderous thug!)
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To: fightu4it
Have they recovered the black Box yet?

Unlike ordinary air travel, all data from the shuttle is simultaneously transmitted to Houston. Houston is the black box - it has all flight data up to the time of loss of communications (and perhaps beyond if there was another means of communication that we civilians don't know about).

279 posted on 02/03/2003 7:37:37 PM PST by meyer
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To: fightu4it
"Have they recovered the black Box yet?
Doesn't have one???
Why not???"

They stated that they had a tape voice recorder but it would not have survived. They probably do not have much on-board data recording, because everything is being transmitted to the ground constantly. The only time it is not, is the few minutes of comm loss during the very high heat part of re-entry.

281 posted on 02/03/2003 7:38:19 PM PST by sd-joe
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