--- Thierry Marais <mtbruno@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Oh yes ! These are northbound in daylight what the local launch time confirms. :) I have been following this launch for awahile, waiting to see what time they would launch. I received a email from Arianespace with the launch time, drat's a daytime launch:( I remember people seeing when envisat went up, it was a nightime launch. > > To me it's a sun sync orbit, and not polar. > And my definition of the polar familly is probably 8 deg. too wide ! To me polar means a close to 90 degree inclination orbit, like Gravity Probe B 1 28230U 04014A 04336.61361717 -.00000134 00000-0 -21925-4 0 1818 2 28230 89.9939 163.3373 0002520 78.1535 281.9956 14.75689192 33163 Kevin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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