Re: those in the western usa/canada, keep an eye out for radarsat 2 attached to the upperstage passing by

From: B Gimle @ComHem (@ComHem)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2007 - 13:27:25 UTC

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The Launch Kit gives a=7176.07 km Orbit inclination: 98.574° Eccentricity: 
0.001251477; 798 km
TLE guess for target orbit:
RADARSAT 2                                       806 x 788
1 92000U 07044A   07348.61540100  .00000001  00000-0  00000+0 0    20
2 92000 098.5740 357.1900 0012514 043.2059 319.9156 14.28304915    14

----- Original Message ----- 

> On Dec 14 at around 13:17 UTC, a soyuz rocket will liftoff with the 
> radarsat 2 satellite.
>
> After the fregat upperstage complete's its first burn, it and the radarsat 
> 2 satellite still
> atached to it, will pass across western usa/canada. So the upperstage will 
> still be in lower
> orbit, then the planned orbit radarsat2 will be placed into.
...
> I had contacted starsem for some info, but they couldn't tell me what I 
> wanted to find out.


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