Re: Launch inclinations - wa

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>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.
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