At 14:22 2000/02/28 EST, DeHBeaver0@aol.com wrote: >Satellites cannot travel from East to West! That would be going AGAINST the >earths rotation. You must have seen something else. In 1997 the spanish Minisat-01 satellite was launched westwards from the Canary Islands over the Atlantic. Incl: 29° retrog. I HAD to say it :-) Minisat-01 1 24779U 97018A 00053.77539891 +.00011624 +00000-0 +66713-3 0 04402 2 24779 150.9626 019.3467 0010655 011.5268 348.5569 15.08191908156015 Bye! -- Ruben Velasco <heston@arrakis.es> 37.3877N 6.0008W +39m WGS84 PGP KeyID 37219E45 Fingerprint = 96575B8713370081 1BC5D43D324B3F4D ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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