UHF F/O F9 Pre-launch Elset
Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:38:08 -0600
UFO F9, 20 Oct 98, 07:09 UT
1 99999U 98 0xx A 98293.31670602 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 12
2 99999 27.0000 310.5847 6648000 173.0000 3.8820 3.09610000 10
First apogee occurs in daylight. Not sure this one will be seen by
anyone other than for the launch.
> MECO-1 MECO2
>EPOCH (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS): 292/07:20:53.500 292/07:36:36.700
>PERIOD (MIN): 97.300 465.200
>INCLINATION (DEG): 28.900 27.010
>ECCENTRICITY (DEG): 0.065800 0.664900
>SEMI-MAJOR AXIS (KM): 7007.5930 19887.8009
>ARGUMENT OF PERIGEE (DEG): 132.000 173.000
>RA OF ASCENDING NODE (DEG): 310.020 310.100
>MEAN ANOMALY (DEG): 352.326 1.220
>START ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:000:09:53.500 000:25:36.700
>END ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET: 000:25:36.700 000:27:03.400
>HEIGHT (KM): 167.6486 323.0154
>INJECTION LATITUDE (DEG): 23.96N 0.292S
>INJECTION LONGITUDE (DEG): 299.06E 348.941E
>INJECTION INERTIAL AZIMUTH (DEG): 106.852 116.989
>INJECTION TIME (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS): 292/07:20:53.500 292/07:36:36.700
>
> PAYLOAD SEP CENTAUR END OF M
>EPOCH (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS): 292/07:38:03.400 292/08:18:44.400
>PERIOD (MIN): 465.100 461.000
>INCLINATION (DEG): 27.000 26.980
>ECCENTRICITY (DEG): 0.664800 0.663200
>SEMI-MAJOR AXIS (KM): 19884.9531 19767.9189
>ARGUMENT OF PERIGEE (DEG): 173.000 173.900
>RA OF ASCENDING NODE (DEG): 310.100 309.110
>MEAN ANOMALY (DEG): 3.882 35.630
>START ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:000:27:03.400 001:07:44.400
>END ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET: 011:07:44.400 005:00:00.000
>HEIGHT (KM): 552.9737 9250.6691
>INJECTION LATITUDE (DEG): 7.96S 25.283S
>INJECTION LONGITUDE (DEG): 3.85E 88.914E
>INJECTION INERTIAL AZIMUTH (DEG): 115.877 80.181
>INJECTION TIME (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS): 292/07:38:03.400 292/08:18:44.400
>
>COMMUNICATIONS FREQUENCIES:
>
>UHF F/O F9 HAS 11 SOLID-STATE UHF AMPLIFIERS AND 39 UHF CHANNELS WITH A
>TOTAL 555 KHZ BANDWIDTH. THESE FREQUENCIES CONSISTS OF 21 NARROW-BAND
>CHANNELS AT 5 KHZ EACH, 17 RELAY CHANNELS AT 25 KHZ AND ONE FLEET BROADCAST
>CHANNEL AT 25 KHZ. UHF F/O F9 ALSO HAS 11 PRIMARY AND 11 SECONDARY EHF
>COMMUNICATIONS CHANNELS CENTERED AT 44.5 GHZ WITH A BANDWIDTH OF 2 GHZ. THE
>GBS PAYLOAD CONSISTS OF FOUR 130 WATT, 24 MEGA-BITS-PER-SECOND (MBPS)
>MILITARY KA-BAND (30/20 GHZ) TRANSPONDERS. THIS MODIFICATION RESULTS IN A
>96 MBPS CAPABILITY PER SECOND.
>
>
>Keith Stein
>Associate Technical Editor
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