don't forget about Apollo 4, an unmanned launch and very important for the program... Tony Planinac Apollo 4 notes: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-4/apollo-4.html During third orbit and after SPS engine burn, spacecraft coasted to a simulated translunar trajectory, reaching an altitude of 18,079 kilometers. The AS-501 launch marked the initial flight testing of the S-IC and S-II stages. The first stage S-IC performed accurately with the center F-1 engine cutting off at 135.5 seconds and the outboard engines cutting off at LOX depletion at 150.8 seconds when the vehicle was traveling at 9660km/h at an altitude of 61.6km. Stage seperation occured only 1.2 seconds off the predicted time. Cutoff of the S-II occured at 519.8 seconds. Jeffrey Simpson wrote: > Apollo 7 and 9 were earth orbital. And on the others, the spacecraft orbited > earth about once after liftoff before translunar injection. > > Jeffrey Simpson > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Tristan Cools <tristan.cools@skynet.be> > To: Seesat-L@satobs.org > Subject: Re: Apollo TLE > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:04:28 +0100 > > At 10:24 22/01/02 +1300, you wrote: > > >This is slightly OT, but I'm trying to find TLE's for the Apollo Lunar > >Flights. > > > >Jeffrey Simpson > > > > Do they exist ? TLE=Two line *orbital* elements. The Apollo Lunar flights > were not exactly Earth Orbital flights I think. > > Or were the Apollo flights launched into a very exentric orbit with the > Moon close to apogee of this orbital plane ? > > Greetings, > > Tristan Cools tristan.cools@skynet.be > Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) webmaster > > Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 > Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) > > Homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/index.htm > BWGS homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/bwgs.htm > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > Invercargill 46.4233° S, 168.3532° E > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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