Globalstar Pre-launch Data

Keith Stein (kstein@erols.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:45:54 -0500

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NOMINAL PRE-LAUNCH ORBITS FOR GLOBALSTAR LAUNCH

                                    M022 AT SEP      M041 AT SEP
EPOCH (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS):             074/06:37:30.000 074/08:17:00.000
PERIOD (MIN):                       103.410          103.387
INCLINATION (DEG):                  51.947           51.946
ECCENTRICITY (DEG):                 0.001981         0.001996
SEMI-MAJOR AXIS (KM):               7297.9689        7296.8867
ARGUMENT OF PERIGEE (DEG):          224.461          226.451
RA OF ASCENDING NODE (DEG):         229.626          229.621
MEAN ANOMALY (DEG):                 237.131          234.882
START ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:003:31:30.000    005:11:00.000
END ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:  006:00:00.000    007:00:00.000
HEIGHT (KM):                        933.1886         932.6495
INJECTION LATITUDE (DEG):           50.66N           50.730N
INJECTION LONGITUDE (DEG):          65.95E           40.614E
INJECTION INERTIAL AZIMUTH (DEG):   104.191          103.889
INJECTION TIME (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS):    074/06:37:30.000 074/08:17:00.000

                                    M046 AT SEP      M037 AT SEP
EPOCH (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS):             074/08:17:00.000 074/08:17:00.000
PERIOD (MIN):                       103.387          103.387
INCLINATION (DEG):                  51.947           51.948
ECCENTRICITY (DEG):                 0.001996         0.002077
SEMI-MAJOR AXIS (KM):               7296.8818        7296.8867
ARGUMENT OF PERIGEE (DEG):          228.812          227.050
RA OF ASCENDING NODE (DEG):         229.621          229.621
MEAN ANOMALY (DEG):                 232.493          234.282
START ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:005:11:00.000    005:11:00.000
END ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:  007:00:00.000    007:00:00.000
HEIGHT (KM):                        933.1342         933.1248
INJECTION LATITUDE (DEG):           50.73N           50.734N
INJECTION LONGITUDE (DEG):          40.58E           40.603E
INJECTION INERTIAL AZIMUTH (DEG):   103.864          103.881
INJECTION TIME (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS):    074/08:17:00.000 074/08:17:00.000

                                    IKAR @ SEP       TRANSFER ORBIT
EPOCH (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS):             074/08:17:00.000 074/03:15:12.500
PERIOD (MIN):                       103.385          96.270
INCLINATION (DEG):                  51.947           51.961
ECCENTRICITY (DEG):                 0.002000         0.048864
SEMI-MAJOR AXIS (KM):               7296.8018        6958.0513
ARGUMENT OF PERIGEE (DEG):          227.734          84.190
RA OF ASCENDING NODE (DEG):         229.621          227.080
MEAN ANOMALY (DEG):                 233.820          0.000
START ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:005:11:00.000    000:09:12.500
END ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:  007:00:00.000    005:11:00.000
HEIGHT (KM):                        932.7901         245.5986
INJECTION LATITUDE (DEG):           50.67N           51.747N
INJECTION LONGITUDE (DEG):          40.95E           86.596E
INJECTION INERTIAL AZIMUTH (DEG):   104.154          82.617
INJECTION TIME (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS):    074/08:17:00.000 074/03:15:12.500

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