The following concerns TDRS 9 (also known as TDRS-I as in the letter "i"). I received the text below via email at work today. The TLE, which is a couple days old, is from Alan's SATBASE.TLE... TDRS 9 35809 x 3522 km 1 27389U 02011A 02079.92023253 -.00000062 00000-0 10000-3 0 171 2 27389 21.3712 330.3662 6198488 182.9566 170.0660 2.06579292 294 SEAL BEACH, Calif., March 21, 2002 - The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-I (TDRS-I), built by Boeing Satellite Systems for NASA, was launched at 5:59 p.m. EST March 8 aboard an Atlas IIA rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla. Subsequently, Boeing detected a problem with the supply of propellant from one of the satellite's four tanks. NASA was immediately notified. Boeing has been conducting a thorough investigation into the cause of the anomaly and has developed and is implementing procedures to get the satellite to its operational geosynchronous orbital position in order to meet established mission requirements and hand over the satellite in accordance with the customer's operational need date. The satellite's current orbit apogee is 35,800 kilometers (22,236 miles) and the perigee is approximately 8,000 kilometers (4,970 miles). Boeing is continuing successful orbit-raising maneuvers and has high confidence that it can resolve this anomaly. Boeing's Mission Control Center is operating the satellite in close coordination with NASA. <end> Ralph McConahy 34.8829N 117.0064W ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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