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Originally posted by Karlhungis
Looks like you were right.
Good catch.
A retroreflector is a device or surface that reflects a wave front back along a vector that is parallel to but opposite in direction from the angle of incidence (180 degrees). This is unlike a mirror, which does so only if the mirror is exactly perpendicular to the wave front.
Just got up here, its a little after 04:00, and turned on NASA TV during the RMS check out. There we definately two objects floating 'to the left' of the shuttles tail as seen in the TV view. One looked to be tumbling as it flashed. Lost them both as they passed from a back space background the the white of the earth background.
Likely ice. There's still a lot of ice remaining on the outside surfaces of the engines at MECO. Some will break off during launch-day RCS firings and OMS burns, and it will take a day or more for what remains to sublimate away once in orbit.
Originally posted by IAttackPeople
Originally posted by Karlhungis
Looks like you were right.
Good catch.
I really hope you were joking here. Please say you were joking.
I was watching the launch. That's a helicopter that some BoobTuber idiot sped-up.
Now, I'll tell you that right before this helicopter flew through the view there was another light that came out of nowhere and was just hanging in the sky near the launch pad. I thought it might have been a star appearing from behind a cloud but then it zipped off, stage left. It looked really strange.
Right then I thought, "Uh oh, the 'UFO behind every rock' crowd is going to be all over that." Maybe I'm spending too much time around here...
When I saw this thread listed I thought, "OMG, I was right."
Originally posted by JSR
reply to post by Cybernative
ummm....did ya quote the wrong person? i dont follow you here.