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A full listing by time-stamp of the activities and interactions from de-orbit burn to full lock-down.

1 posted on 03/10/2003 4:21:30 PM PST by brityank

To: XBob; John Jamieson; snopercod; bonesmccoy; Thud; Budge; wirestripper; First_Salute; freepersup; ...

Ping to you guys =
A comprehensive listing of the timeline.

2 posted on 03/10/2003 4:26:49 PM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)

Thank you. I had wondered how long communications continued after debris was observed leaving Columbia. This pretty well lays it all out there.

8 posted on 03/10/2003 4:54:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Are you going Freeps Ahoy! Don't miss the boat. Er ship...)

bump so I can find thhis for a later reading

23 posted on 03/10/2003 8:46:06 PM PST by Hanging Chad (not to be confused with "Hanging Ten" or "Hanging Wallpaper"...)

08:51:19/08:52:49 a.m. - Department of Defense sensor data shows first (earliest known) off-nominal event. The nature of this event is not yet known, nor is the nature or location of the sensor. Analysis of data after a data dropout shows numerous jet firings occurred around this event (L2L, L3L, R2R, R3R). NEW

I don't understand exactly what's being said here. Did the DoD sensor pick up the firing of the jets or something that occurred before the firings? If I understand the terminology correctly, the left side fired first (L2L/L3L) followed by the right side (R2R/R3R). Kind of like the Columbia was fishtailing.

Less than two minutes later there is the first debris report. Is it possible to see, from the ground, the effect of a single tile falling off (eg. a separate contrail)?

28 posted on 03/10/2003 10:17:05 PM PST by mikegi

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