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Hello again,

      Who will see the first flashes of the COMETS satellite ?
Florida Today reported :

"The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) terminated operation
      of the Communications and Broadcasting Engineering Test Satellite (COMETS)
      Kakehashi on Aug 6, 1999 at 23:42. The satellite was launched by the H-II Launch
      Vehicle No. 5 on Feb 21, 1998. The fuel tank for the hydrazine has been emptied
      out before operation was terminated.

      The final orbit :

      Height of apogee: 17,700 km
      Height of perigee: 1,060 km
      Orbital period: 5hr 28min
      Orbital inclination: 30.1 degrees"

Official web site :
http://yyy.tksc.nasda.go.jp/Home/Satellites/e/comets_e.html

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Daniel Deak
St-Bonaventure, Québec

COSPAR site 1745 : 45.9483°N, 72.6539°W, 58 m., UTC-4:00

E-mail : dan.deak@sympatico.ca
French language satellite web site : http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.deak/

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