There was no indication given of other than simultaneous release. The timeline indicated separation of all of the payloads at T plus 60. A mission profile is available on Rocketlab's Twitter account which seems to confirm this. I am not totally discounting the possibility you suggest, just reporting the information that has been made available. Robert On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, 00:13 Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l, < seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: > Op 13-6-2020 om 12:07 schreef C. Bassa: > > Radio observations from Australia indicate the orbital altitude of M2 > > Pathfinder is in an orbit near 590 km, quite different from the ~500 > > km in your TLEs. Is it known if this launch planned to insert > > satellites into different orbits? > > > > Cees > > > > > I could only find a reference to a ~500 km orbit for ANDESITE. But it is a > rideshare so some might have ben deployed at a different altitude. > > - Marco > > > ---- > Dr Marco Langbroek > > e-mail: marco_at_langbroek.org > web: www.langbroek.org > Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek > ---- > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sat Jun 13 2020 - 13:32:45 UTC
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