proton launch

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 08:08:46 EST

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Last night a proton rocket placed the W3A satellite into orbit, as planned.

Orbital elements

UNK
1 28187U 04008A   04076.11432579  .06358015  00000-0  14470+2 0    27
2 28187  48.9939 169.0478 7240821   0.0112 359.9752  2.26025492    16
UNK
1 28188U 04008B   04076.31170134  .00026093  00000-0  50416-2 0    29
2 28188  49.5011 169.1808 5335639 353.8560   1.9121  5.06529629    15

Those are for when it was in a transfer orbit. The satellite was latter placed into geo transfer
orbit which has an inclination of 13 degrees.

W3A satellite is going to 7 degrees East longitude.

Kevin

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COSPAR Site #1775  Long 75.6910 W, Lat 44.6062 N, altitude 100 metres




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