PAS-6 communications satellite de-orbited

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 10 2004 - 05:00:44 EDT

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    PAS-6 is one that Mike has gotten in his scope with two others
    during flaring geosat seasons, but due to inadequate record-
    keeping on my part I'm still not clear as to whether it was 
    the one that never brightened as much as the other two.  
    
    Anyway, who started calling putting geosats into a graveyard 
    orbit "deorbiting" them?  It's just "relocating" them (in the 
    other sense of the term, Kevin) to a different orbit, not 
    bringing them out of orbit entirely.  Here's the story:
    
    http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/05pas6/
    
    Now, I really kind of doubt the reliability of the first element 
    set below --  but maybe it had a lot of fuel left!
    
    PAS 6
    1 24891U 97040A   04094.75000000 -.00000158  00000-0  00000+0 0  7760
    2 24891  14.6420  14.6970 0669728 359.1400  11.5730  0.88921620 24414
    PAS 6
    1 24891U 97040A   04093.21876625 -.00000208  00000-0  00000+0 0  7759
    2 24891   0.0339  51.2827 0008134 126.9123  20.8117  0.99727258 24392
    PAS 6
    1 24891U 97040A   04092.26782124 -.00000217  00000-0  00000+0 0  7742
    2 24891   0.0322  51.2953 0008134 126.8800  39.4175  0.99727587 24389
    PAS 6
    1 24891U 97040A   04091.38601779 -.00000224 +00000-0 +00000-0 0 07738
    2 24891 000.0291 056.3761 0008189 121.5841 083.0387 00.99727640024373
    PAS 6
    1 24891U 97040A   04090.49214137 -.00000231  00000-0  00000+0 0  7723
    2 24891   0.0214  66.3495 0008291 113.7207 120.0056  0.99728163 24361
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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