> >I'm not sure I would call that a dog-leg. My definition of a dog-leg is a >major plane change (> 0.5 deg?) occuring during initial powered flight. >It sounds like it could have occurred after initial orbit was obtained >and perhaps accomplished by the payload. If that is a dog-leg, then all >geosats do dog-legs. > As an engineer in the launch vehicle business, I gotta agree with Bill on this one. As a term of art, a dog-leg is really an adjustment of launch azimuth shortly after powered flight begins, not once an initial orbit is attained. ___________________________________________ John C. Broman, Jr. Orbital Launch Services Project Office Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 470 john.broman@gsfc.nasa.gov ___________________________________________