Launch of IRS-1C with Skipper subsatellite is scheduled at 0645:18.45 UTC on Dec 28. Payload will separate from the 4th stage at 0700:20 UTC, and 10 min later Skipper will separate from IRS-1C. Nominal initial orbit parameters are semimaj. axis 7195.11 km eccentric. 0.00223 inclination 98.71 deg arg. of perigee 156.1 deg Hmin 800.9 km Hmax 832.6 km nodical period 101.23 min -- Neil Clifford <n.clifford@physics.oxford.ac.uk> http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/sat/satintro.html