RE: NROL-28 launched on time

From: Ted Molczan (ssl3molcz@rogers.com)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2008 - 13:34:01 UTC

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    Spaceflight Now reports that the launch has been officially declared a success:
    
    http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av006/status.html
    
    As reported earlier, NROL-22 should now be in this approximate orbit:
    
    SECO2                                                 1117 X 37642 km
    1 71001U 08000A   08073.68144909  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    09
    2 71001  62.4000  39.5602 7090000 266.5070 180.0000  2.10000000    02
    
    The orbit is well placed for visual observation from at least Europe and North
    America. 
    
    NROL-22's standard visual magnitude should be similar to that of USA 184, 3.5
    +/- 1.5 (1000 km range, 90 deg phase-angle). At mid-northern latitudes, it may
    reach mag 8, under the most favourable conditions of range and illumination. At
    apogee it will be about mag 11.
    
    http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/06027A_std_mag.pdf
    
    Ted Molczan
    
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