Hi all, As read on Spaceflight Now in a text from Stephen Clark : http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0105/08goes2/ It looks like we could end up with a new geosync flasher in the future. The GOES-2 weather satellite has been put out of service and its orbit has been raised. Here's an excerpt : "Over the past week, the spacecraft used onboard thrusters to raise its altitude about 185 miles above its original geostationary orbit. The purpose for such a maneuver is twofold: to remove the satellite from geostationary orbit and to offer complete depletion of the craft's propellant, decreasing possibilities for future debris-producing explosions. The final firing of the propulsion system took place early Saturday, followed just hours later at 2108 GMT (5:08 p.m. EDT) by the command to switch off the satellite's communications system, effectively ending the life of the 24-year old weather observation spacecraft-turned-communications relay satellite." Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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