RE: NY Times on China Launch

From: Ted Molczan (molczan@rogers.com)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 18:02:34 EDT

  • Next message: Ted Molczan: "TJM obs of 2003 Oct 11 UTC" 

    Dale Ireland wrote:

> Does anyone know what the orbital inclination will be? i.e.: 
> what the northernmost latitude will be from which it will be 
> visible? Dale

Orbital inclination will be 42.4 deg, and visibility will extend several degrees
north of that in latitude.

My latest search elements are here:

http://satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2003/0048.html

Based on your site coordinates in my file, it looks like you will have a
pre-dawn 20 deg pass of the spacecraft.

Predictions using my elements should be accurate to about 1 minute in time,
assuming launch on 2003 Oct 15 at 01:00 UTC, and same orbits as Shenzhou 3 and
4. Of course, it never hurts to start looking a few minutes early.

Ted Molczan


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