Ed wrote Recently Orion 3 (25727, 99-024A) orbital elements from OIG have been all over the place. Now I've heard a claim that the owner (who?) is moving the satellite to a higher orbit. The orion 3 satellite was launched by boeing for Loral Space & Communications who owned it. But part of the delta 3 rocker failed, leaving it in a useless orbit. So loral wrote it off. At one time nasa thought about using the shuttle to new booster and sending by the moon. Then it would be placed in a much better orbit. But seeing is ,they have appear to raised it, then the shuttle can no longer reach it. What every fuel there is, I don't think there won't be enough to get it to geo orbit where it was going to before the rocket failed. What ever fuel they use now, they won't have as much for station keeping. Since the sat is flashing, then it must be spinning. So if the solar panels had deployed, they won't be locked on the sun. And if anything was using battery power, then after awhile the batteries would be dead. No batteries equals no power. And then how would you control the sat. Will have to wait and see what's going on. Interesting! Kevin _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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