I now believe that the planned inclination is approximately 33.5 deg, not 28.5 deg. The following example is for a 310 km orbit. The epoch is at the first ascending node, based on launch on 2010 Apr 21 at 22:44 UTC: 1 99310U 10111.99197249 .00147460 00000-0 00000-0 0 01 2 99310 33.4741 346.4655 0018855 21.5921 338.5577 15.87600065 02 I will follow up with additional elsets spanning a range of altitudes. Comments by Tim Luton, prompted me to re-evaluate my earlier analysis, which led me to conclude that I had been too quick too dismiss the inclination indicated by the launch azimuth, apparent in the published launch hazard chart. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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