From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   JF Mezei suggested that ...   
   > Looking at Inspiration4 landing.   
   > They were the highest a human has been since last Hubble repaid mission   
   > (and may have been higher).   
   >   
   > They jettisomed the "trunk" before de-orbit burn.  Is this SOP for   
   > Dragon or special for this mission?   By detaching before de-orbit,   
   > doesn't that create space debris with trucnk staying high up for a long   
   > time (since that orbit was bery high) ?   
   >   
   > I was under the impression the standard was to fire de-orbit engines and   
   > then separate which ensures both portions de-orbit with the capsule   
   > distancing itself from the trunk/service module as soon as aerodynamics   
   > kick in.   
      
   This evening, we're expecting /Endeavour/ to proceed through trunk   
   separation, nosecone closure, and the deorbit burn.   
      
   [Crew2 just got "Dragon is go for undocking"]   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   "That’s where I end with this kind of conversation: Language is   
   crucial, and yet not the answer."   
     Jonathan Rosa, sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist,   
   Stanford.,2020   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)