Allen Thomson wrote: >>The newspaper story doesn't totally square with what my >>somewhat hurried simulation shows. I.e., perigee seems to >>have occured between 0829 and 0830 UTC, not 0849. The 50 burn began at 0848xx (I don't know the exact seconds). The perigee was a few minutes earlier. [This info comes from a conversation with CONTOUR Operations Planning Engineer.] >>the spacecraft was in line of sight of >>the tracking and command station of Diego Garcia right up to >>the time of burn, though at very low elevation angles. DG may have had a view, but they were not scheduled to be tracking CONTOUR. NASA's Deep Space Network has used five antennas to search for it (two antennas at Goldstone in California, two in Australia, and one in Spain) with no success. Ralph McConahy 34.8829N 117.0064W 670m ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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