At 21:20 15/03/06, Kevin Fetter wrote: >A Pegasus rocket will send 3 satellites as part of the Space Technology 5 mission into orbit this >morning. > >Mission Homepage > >http://nmp.nasa.gov/st5/index.html > >The satellites are 53 cm across, and 48 cm high. They have three sides covered with solar panels. >They will be spinning as they orbit the earth. > >They will be placed into a approx 300 by 4500 km orbit with a inclination of 105 degrees. By the launch time they will be near the sunrise/sunset line. The orbit is sunsynchrinous, the jigher inclination to bring the rate of change of RA of node to the required .9856 degrees/day One comment about the web page is that the existence of a current constellation the ESA -Cluster/China-Double star constellation is completely ignored, in the science section. This constellation have orbital changing thrusters and attitude control. The educational part of this project is misleading students if it totally ignores the existence of Cluster. Tony Beresford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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