Spaceflight Now is reporting that the sats failed to achieve orbit and impacted in the Indian Ocean. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/taurus/t6/status.html Jim King 29.748 N, 95.768 W ----- Original Message ----- From: <Mir16609@aol.com> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:05 PM Subject: Orbview 4 Launch Failure > Space.com has reported that the Orbview 4 launch was a failure. > > http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html > > If the objects are in a low-low earth orbit could somone post search elsets? No elsets can be found at OIG. > > Sounds like this launch may have had a velocity too low to reach orbit like Ikonos 1. > > Cheers, > Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL > http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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