Watching the recent STS mission on Nasa TV I noticedthat the orbital map ion the wall on the ground command centre had written in large black letters " Z O E", just around the Iraq/ afghanistan area. Anyone any idea what these initials stand for? I thought at first they were lakes but I think they are in fact letters.
andy, g0sfj
Zone of Exclusion (ZOE). With the ZOE, neither TDRS satellite could contact a spacecraft under a certain altitude (646 nautical miles).
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:02:32 -0400, Andythomas 70374.440@compuserve.com wrote:
Watching the recent STS mission on Nasa TV I noticedthat the orbital map ion the wall on the ground command centre had written in large black letters " Z O E", just around the Iraq/ afghanistan area. Anyone any idea what these initials stand for? I thought at first they were lakes but I think they are in fact letters.
andy, g0sfj
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