Re: Two Iridium flares right next to each other

From: Rod Sladen (rodsladen@crosswinds.net)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 12:11:21 EST

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I wrote:

> But most of the spares are in orbits around 68km. below 
> the operational sateliites, and thus "lap" the 
> operational satellites roughly every 11 days.

Just to avoid confusion, satellites, such as Iridium 82, 
in the spare orbit (around 711 x 708km) will lap the 
operational satellites (at around 779 x 775 km) in just 
under every 5 days.

Satellites in the "engineering orbit" (around 750 x 747km),
such as Iridium 51, will lap the operational satellites in 
just over 11 days.

-- 
Rod Sladen
Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK
52.923N, 1.219W

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