RE: Mislabeled geosat in NASA 3D applet

From: Ted Molczan (molczan@rogers.com)
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 22:04:07 EST

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Thomas Fly asked:

> http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html
> identifies a geosynchronous satellite as INSAT 2A, "Indian 
> National Satellite 2A... Stationed at 74 deg E..." which is
> a bit west of GStar 3, RCA-SATCOM 5, GStar 1, and ACTS at 
> about 103 degrees West. What's it really?

There are two sats at 74.0 E:

2002-002A    27298 INSAT 3C

2002-043A    27525 KALPANA 1 (METSAT 1)

Ted Molczan


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