Paul Maley wrote: > After seeing some discussion on the last, I thought it > worthwhile to post my current list of failures. The following > Iridiums are failed and still in orbit (79, 85 decayed). > There have been 15 apparent failures to date and one > partial failure: This is in agreement with my observations and my conclusions. > The partial failure is IR 51(25262). Thank you for your conclusion on its "doubtful" status. > Plane 1 = IR 73 (25344) > Plane 2 = IR 24 (25105), 71 (25320), 69(25319), 48 (25107) > Plane 3 = IR 27(25947) > Plane 4 = IR 2(25527) > Plane 5 = IR 9(24838), 911(24842), 914(24836) > Plane 6 = IR 921(24873), 20(24871), 44(25078) Just a couple of points on the above list: IR 2(25527, 98066A) started out in plane 5, not plane 4. It may well have been intended to drift it to another plane. I had assumed that it was intended to go to plane 3 (which it has long since passed, of course). Has anybody any definitive information on this? IR 24 is, surely, really (24905, 97043C) but is, of course, identified and tracked by Spaccecom/OIG as (25105, 97082B), having "swapped identities" with IR 46. (24871, 97034C) is now identified by Iridium/Spacecom/OIG as "Iridium 920" rather than plain "Iridium 20". -- Rod Sladen, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK, 52.923N, 1.219W ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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