telstar 18 orbital data

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 30 2004 - 11:48:23 EDT

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    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
    
    
    		
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