Re: Rosetta launched

From: Jonathan McDowell (jcm@head.cfa.harvard.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 13:36:36 EST

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Robert wrote 
> The launcher was in an eccentric coast orbit of 200 by 4000 km.
This is an error by ESA PR, I wrote to them about it a week ago
and they admitted this. The orbit was 44 km perigee, not 200 km.
The upper stage reentered over the Pacific on the first orbit.
 - Jonathan

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