From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday or thereabouts, Snidely asked ...   
   > Monday, Snidely murmurred ...   
   >> 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"]   
   >   
   > Fly around complete, now in free flight, with the departure phasing burn   
   > next.   
      
   That was done, now claw separation confirmed, and then "Nominal trunk   
   jettison"   
      
   -d   
      
   --   
   Killing a mouse was hardly a Nobel Prize-worthy exercise, and Lawrence   
   went apopleptic when he learned a lousy rodent had peed away all his   
   precious heavy water.   
   _The Disappearing Spoon_, Sam Kean   
      
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