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| Guest |
 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:00 pm |
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| Jorge R. Frank |
| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:20 pm |
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d_pullan@hotmail.com wrote in news:4segq256ti9g22gf9hbcgs4f0mrvjh3lvj@
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They're not fake, but they're not from ISS either. They were taken from a
WB-57 WAVE chase plane.
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| Lee Jay |
| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:51 pm |
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Jorge R. Frank wrote:
To your knowledge, have there been any launches captured from the ISS?
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| George |
| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:24 am |
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"Jorge R. Frank" <jrfrank@ibm-pc.borg> wrote in message
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Great images, nonetheless.
George |
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| David Findlay |
| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:06 am |
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Quote: They're not fake, but they're not from ISS either. They were taken from a
WB-57 WAVE chase plane.
How high do those things go? I read on wikipedia the service ceiling is
45000 feet, but I thought to get black space above you you need to be
somewhat higher than that. I may be wrong. Thanks,
David |
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| Brian Gaff |
| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:44 am |
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Depends whether the colours and contrast are natural. I of course cannot
judge now, but when I was younger, I took photos from the top of a mountain
in the Canaries, and although, I could still see some blue, immediately
above looked black and most of the photos, with their high contrast seemed
to lose the blue except close to the horizon.
So it might be just a photographic effect.
Brian
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"David Findlay" <david@davsoft.com.au> wrote in message
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Quote: They're not fake, but they're not from ISS either. They were taken from a
WB-57 WAVE chase plane.
How high do those things go? I read on wikipedia the service ceiling is
45000 feet, but I thought to get black space above you you need to be
somewhat higher than that. I may be wrong. Thanks,
David |
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| Brian Thorn |
| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:40 am |
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On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:06:46 +1000, David Findlay
<david@davsoft.com.au> wrote:
Quote: They're not fake, but they're not from ISS either. They were taken from a
WB-57 WAVE chase plane.
How high do those things go? I read on wikipedia the service ceiling is
45000 feet,
I thought they challenged U-2s for altitude, so 60,000 is more like
it.
Brian |
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| JD in TX |
| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:30 pm |
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d_pullan@hotmail.com wrote in news:4segq256ti9g22gf9hbcgs4f0mrvjh3lvj@
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Quote: I'm being told these are photos from the ISS of a shuttle launch.
Where did you get the original images? |
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| Jason A. Ciastko |
| Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:29 pm |
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Quote: How high do those things go? I read on wikipedia the service ceiling is
45000 feet, but I thought to get black space above you you need to be
somewhat higher than that. I may be wrong. Thanks,
NASA has a couple of B-57s with extra big wings and other mods to increase
maximum altitude. I don't know what it is, but am sure it is higher than
45K feet.
Danny Deger
David
From: http://jsc-aircraft-ops.jsc.nasa.gov/wb57/performance.html
Operating Altitude: Sea level to well above 60,000 feet
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| Rolf T. Kappe |
| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:09 am |
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On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:06:46 +1000, David Findlay
<david@davsoft.com.au> wrote:
Quote: They're not fake, but they're not from ISS either. They were taken from a
WB-57 WAVE chase plane.
How high do those things go? I read on wikipedia the service ceiling is
45000 feet, but I thought to get black space above you you need to be
somewhat higher than that. I may be wrong. Thanks,
David
If you look them up on FlightAware, 47-50K is typical.
<http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA926>
<http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA928>
Click on the date in the list of flights to see more detail. Click on
"Track Log" (next to "Status" on the right) to see the flight profile,
including altitude.
The data for the ER-2s goes up to 60K. Since 60K is the upper limit
of the FAAs airspace, they probably go higher but the data is only
reported as 60K.
<http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA806>
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