APSTAR 5(TELSTAR 18) 1 28364U 04024A 04182.00416929 .00000014 00000-0 00000+0 0 39 2 28364 0.0541 179.9680 5953803 186.7072 358.8178 3.72956700 20 BLOCK DM-SL R/B 1 28365U 04024B 04182.25427878 .00000012 00000-0 00000+0 0 41 2 28365 0.0485 183.0652 5954890 183.8218 335.3741 3.73352538 26 That's two geo sat's this year, that failed to reach the proper gto ( geo transfert orbit ), and will have to burn station keeping fuel, to get to geo orbit. So they won't be in service as long as planned. The other one which failed to reach proper gto this year was Superbird 6. Kevin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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