Re: Ariane Launch; Elset

Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:13:22 -0600

Nilesat
1 96666U 980xx A  98118.96737500  .00000004  00000-0  00000-0 0    12
2 96666   7.0000  16.8770 7308880 178.0010   2.2770  2.27200000    03

This is based upon the info below and should not suffer from my typical
prelaunch analysis since it launched over two hours ago   :)

Ron Lee




At 10:48 AM 4/28/98 -0700, you wrote:
>NOMINAL ORBITS
>                                    NILESAT          BSAT            
>EPOCH (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS):             118/23:14:13.220 118/23:18:39.220
>PERIOD (MIN):                        633.887          633.627        
>INCLINATION (DEG):                    7.000            6.997         
>ECCENTRICITY (DEG):                 0.730888         0.730769        
>SEMI-MAJOR AXIS (KM):               24443.7658       24437.0824      
>ARGUMENT OF PERIGEE (DEG):          178.001          178.051         
>RA OF ASCENDING NODE (DEG):          16.877           16.865         
>MEAN ANOMALY (DEG):                   2.277            4.793         
>START ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:000:21:13.220    000:25:39.220   
>END ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:  022:00:00.000    022:00:00.000   
>HEIGHT (KM):                          348.3080         931.0474      
>INJECTION LATITUDE (DEG):             2.15S            4.406S        
>INJECTION LONGITUDE (DEG):            9.30E           29.147E        
>INJECTION INERTIAL AZIMUTH (DEG):    96.657           95.448         
>INJECTION TIME (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS):    118/23:14:13.220 118/23:18:39.220
>
>Launch is tonight 2253 UTC.
>
>
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