Here are some ideas: 1. Payload got into the parking orbit, shed some debris trying to confuse the observers and sent a big decoy into a higher orbit while the satellite itself stayed in the parking orbit 2. A problem during the transfer from the initial orbit to the higher orbit made it reach only the parking orbit, the problem was thought to be solved in 1.6 days, but during the transfer to the higher orbit an explosion occurred (or something like it...). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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