Iridium 98 (27451, 2002-031B) appears to be manouvering. In mid-June 2005, Iridium 98 was raised from the parking orbit (673 x 670km) to the engineering orbit (752 x 744km), and its orbital inclination has been increased, so that it is drifting out of orbital plane 4. The intention may be to drift Iridium 98 to orbital plane 5, which has been without a spare satellite since Iridium 86 (25528, 1998-066B) took the place of Iridium 16 (24841, 1997-030F) in the operational constellation in April 2005. I have updated my Iridium Constellation Status page at http://www.rod.sladen.org.uk/iridium.htm to take account of this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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