Slaintemaith
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The shuttle launches. The SRBs drop away a couple minutes later. The main engines cut off roughly six minutes after that.
I know that it's not in orbit after MECO. I know that there's an OMS burn(s) afterward to make it so. My question is: (At least with regards to an ISS mission) what happens next from an orbital height standpoint?
Does the shuttle make its first OMS burn to put it at the apogee/perigee of the ISS, or just circularize its own orbit? Or something in between?
I've searched both the forums and The Web At Large for this info and come up with bupkis. (And I'd be willing to bet there's a mission-by-mission breakdown around somewhere!)
I know that it's not in orbit after MECO. I know that there's an OMS burn(s) afterward to make it so. My question is: (At least with regards to an ISS mission) what happens next from an orbital height standpoint?
Does the shuttle make its first OMS burn to put it at the apogee/perigee of the ISS, or just circularize its own orbit? Or something in between?
I've searched both the forums and The Web At Large for this info and come up with bupkis. (And I'd be willing to bet there's a mission-by-mission breakdown around somewhere!)