At 14:29 27-12-04 -0600, you wrote: > The flight proceeded as planned for 40 minutes. But the second cycle of > the engine in the third stage was complete almost a minute earlier, > sending the vehicles to the elliptic orbit of 280 by 645km instead of a > circular orbit of 640-680km. According to Commersant, the Sich-1M will > now have to burn its onboard reserve fuel to reach to the circular orbit. I just received an email from a very reliable source that the satellite is probably tumbling out of control. Although this is a setback for the operaters of the Sich 1M satellite, it would be very interesing to observe this satellite. I(and my source) have great doubts about an engine aboard this satellite. The satellite is based on a Tselina D or Okean satellite and they never had manoeuvring capabilities. >This will reduce its guaranteed flight term from three to one year. The >other craft, the KS5MF2, which has no engines, will descend into Earth's >atmosphere and burn up. I presume this will be for both satellites. Greetings, Tristan Cools BWGS Belgian Working Group Satellites bwgs_belgianworkinggroupsatellites@hotmail.com http://users.skynet.be/satimage/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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