Iridium Lost.

Neil Clifford (clifford@astro.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:26:59 +0100 (BST)

According to a Motorola/Iridium press release[1] one of the
satellites[2] (on the recent September 14th launch out of Baykonur) is
suffering from an attitude control problem (and will consequently
probably not form part of the operational constellation).

[1] http://www.iridium.com/ltbreak/late.html
[2] take your pick:
    24944 97051A Iridium 29
    24945 97051B Iridium 32
    24946 97051C Iridium 33
    24947 97051D Iridium 27
    24948 97051E Iridium 28
    24949 97051F Iridium 30
    24950 97051G Iridium 31

regards,

-- 
Neil Clifford                                       <neil@satellite.eu.org>
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