• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Space Shuttle Damaged by Hail

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Golfball sized hail fell at Pad A yesterday, knocking at least 7000 chunks of from from the External Tank. Inspections and meetings are taking place now, but the odds are good that she'll have to be rolled back to the VAB for about a week's worth of delay in repairing. Unfortunately due to the number of hits, they may need a whole new tank which will set the program back well over a month...

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5034

- Rob
 
Rollback confirmed... Options for a minor repair might get her off before the end of this window (March 25th) but from what I've seen that won't be possible. Major repairs might get it fixed in time for the 4/23 - 5/24 window, if a tank replacement is required they will push it back to July and move STS-118 (which was scheduled for the end of June) to August 26.
 
I was on watch last night, and I looked at this carefully. We had storms pop up around base, but the LDN showed tons of lightning over much of S. Florida. This is the funny part, they never issued a warning, at any point in time.
 
NWS Melbourne did have a warning out in advance of this storm, and per the NASA press conference today the people at the pad had 10 minutes notice to take cover from large hail...
 
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