Author Topic: STS 124 skips to re-entry phase after firt oms burn.  (Read 2402 times)

mllgrennman

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STS 124 skips to re-entry phase after firt oms burn.
« on: February 29, 2020, 04:29:54 PM »
Is this a known issue?

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Re: STS 124 skips to re-entry phase after firt oms burn.
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2020, 12:38:14 AM »
Are you certain this is a bug?

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Re: STS 124 skips to re-entry phase after firt oms burn.
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2020, 07:08:13 PM »
It sounds like a timing issue or that something was forgotten that made the OMS-2 burn never take place.
If you take to long after MECO so you miss the apogee burn point or the burn didnt perform the perigee of the orbit is to low and you will enter atmosphere again.


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