Before Phillip Clark started his WorldWide Satellite Launches, the RAE
(Royal Aircraft Establishment) published a list of satellite launches, the
RAE Table of Earth Satellites. Started in 1958 it came to an end in 1993 due
to budget restaints. The table is complete up to the end of 1992, when
Phillip took over.
At the Eurosom 2 meeting in Ghent, belgium Pierre Nierick distributed a lot
of surplus copies of the RAE tables covering 1957-1989, a big book with 1006
pages of tables.
The RAE has published the years 1990-1992 in a seperate book.
I think it will be of interrest to members of this group when this info
becomes available electronically.
With the use of an scanner and using an OCR program I'have "copied" the year
1990, totalling 52 pages inclueding the introduction. I've just scanned and
OCR-ed the pages and saved them as "raw" .txt files.
No editing has been done and it is possible that errors due to the scanning
are inclueded.
But providing it as a txt file, everybody can edit it with his own text
editor or word processor.
It is available in a zip file of 42 kB.
Just send me an email and I'll send you the file.
If there is a lot of interrest I'll asked Neil or Bart to put it on the
VSOHP.
Below is the first page of 1990, it is page 1007.
Due to the fact that the page is in landscape format the mailbrowser wraps
the lines and the tabular outline is distorted.
Bart doesnt allow attachments, so you'll have to check it out by asking for
the file.
Also let me know if this is appriciated and in due time the complete list
will become available in year by year files.
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Year of Launch 1990
Page 1007
Name Designation Launch date, Shape and Size Date of OrbitaL Nodal Semi
Perigee Apogee OrbitaL Argument
[Launch vehiclel (SSC number) Lifetime and mass (m) orbital inclina- period
major height height eccen- of
descent date (kg) determination tion (min) axis (km) (km) tricity
perigee
(deg) (km) (deg)
T Skynet 4A* 1990-01A 1990 Jan 1.00 Box + 1.4 wide 1990 Jan 3.1 3.37
1380.31 41068 33676 35704 0.025 54
[Titan 31 (20401) >miLLion panels 2.1 high 1990 Feb 20.4 3.34 1436.06 42166
35784 35792 0.0001 14
years 1433 full 1.9 Long
685 empty 16 span
T JCSat 2** 1990-01B 1990 Jan 1.00 Cylinder 3.6 to 1990 Jan 5.3 0.35
1436.21 42169 35669 35912 0.003 154
[Titan 31 (20402) >miLLion 2280 full 10 Long 1990 Jan 26.2 0.28 1436.03
42166 35777 35797 0.0002 358
years 3.66 dia
D Titan 3 1990-01C 1990 Jan 1.00 Cylinder 9.85 Long 1990 Jan 2.1 28.60
92.82 6800 186 657 0.035 126
second stage (20403) 8 days 3.05 dia
1990 Jan 9
Skynet 4A 1990-010 1990 Jan 1.00 Cylinder 1.8 Long 1990 Jan 3.5 21.67
613.83 23939 307 34814 0.721 172
rocket (PAM-D2) (20404) 00 years 3700 full 1.6 dia
430 empty
JCSat 2 1990-01F 1990 Jan 1.00 CyLinder? 1990 Jan 2.5 26.79 340.91
16175 299 19294 0.587 178
rocket (20406) 200 years
D Fragment*** 1990-01E
D STS 32t 1990-02A 1990 Jan 9.52 Cylinder + 37.1 tong 1990 Jan 9.7 28.50
90.85 6704 293 358 0.005 46
5M (Columbia F9) (20409) 10.88 days delta wing 17.4 high 1990 Jan 13.4
28.50 91.02 6712 332 335 0.0003 122
R 1990 Jan 20.40 84079 23.8 span
empty
Leasat 5tt 1990-02B 1990 Jan 9.52 Cylinder 6.17
high Ejected from Shuttle 1990 Jan 10.55
(Syncom IV-5) (20410) >mi[Lion 6900 full 4.26 dia 1990 Jan 14.0 1.41
1426.98 41988 34858 36363 0.018 203
years 1390 empty
Leasat 5 1990-02C 1990 Jan 9.52 Cylinder 1990 Jan 11.7 27.21 276.73 14076
320 15076 0.524 0
rocket (20411) 100 years
UK Ministry of Defence communications satellite.
Domestic communications satellite for Japan Communications Satellite Company
Probably forward skirt of Commercial Titan's extension module.
t Launched from Cape Canaveral (2 women, 3 men); Landed at Edwards AFB,
California, with LDEF 1 (see page 779); Landing weight 103510 kg.
tt US military communications satet[ite, ejected by 'discus, method.
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Greetings and clear, dark skies
Leo Barhorst
52.767 N 5.09 E 2 m ASL
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