RE: Titan IV launch
jeff@satellite.eu.org
Mon, 11 May 98 12:28:03
--- On Sun, 10 May 1998 08:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Allen Thomson
<thomsona@netcom.com> wrote in part:
>As these launches are understood, the two major possibilities are
>GTO and Molniya orbits. Launch azimuth serves to discriminate
>between the two, but I haven't seen any information on which
>way the recent T-IV went.
The *draft* Jonathan's Space Report
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/jsr/latest.html
has this launch fingered as a geosynchronous mission. Earlier
published reports had payload separation occurring 5 hr 51 min
after launch. Observations near Sydney, Australia were 24 minutes
later so perhaps this was the fuel dump that was observed.
Jeff Hunt <jeff@satellite.eu.org>