I found the following: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/astroe/about/overview.html Orbit: circular Altitude: 550 km Inclination: 31 degrees Pointing Constraint: Within 25 degrees of perpendicular to the Sun (all the instruments) For comparison, I found this about the failed Astro-D launch: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/m5/astroe/000210failure.html "Astro-E should have been delivered into an egg-shaped orbit around Earth with a high point of 343 miles and low point of 125 miles." Elsewhere is information that its inclination was to have been 31 deg. Astro-D (ASCA, Asuka) was also in a 31-degree orbit. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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