Re: Launch info for the next Titan-4
Floyd Weaver (fweaver@nbn.net)
Tue, 4 Nov 1997 02:38:16 -0500 (EST)
How visivible will this be from the US east coast? It looks like
it will be closer to the coast than a shuttle flight to Mir (55
inclination orbit and a launch azimuth about ten degrees to the right of
the shuttles). Does the Titan-4 follow a similar path to orbit? I'd hope
it climbs higher during powered flight than the shuttles 70 miles because
then I will be able to see it higher than 10 degree elv. If any of you can
give a good estimate of the launch time, to the narrow the offical two
hour window, would be very helpfull. Any other pluses or minuses?
I saw one launch of the shuttle from the locate below and would
enjoy seeing more.
Floyd Weaver
3 miles north of Lebanon Pa.
40.389N 76.417W
http://users.nbn.net/~fweaver
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Agapov Vladimir wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is unclassified (U) information from the ILAM message
> for the next Titan-4 launch.
>
> Best regards,
> Vladimir Agapov.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> LAUNCH INFORMATION
>
> (U) NAME: TITAN IV/A-17/K-20/TC-16
> (U) LAUNCH AGENCY: 5 SPACE LAUNCH SQUADRON
> (U) LAUNCH SITE: EASTERN RANGE
> (U) LAUNCH AZIMUTH: 037.9000 DEG
> (U) LAUNCH WINDOW: 01 NOV 97 0045Z TO 01 NOV 97 0245Z
> (U) LAUNCH VEHICLE: TITAN IVA
>
>
> NOMINAL ORBITS
> PARKING ORBIT TRANSFER ORBIT
> EPOCH (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS): 305/00:58:52.000 305/01:48:57.000
> PERIOD (MIN): 88.193 484.207
> INCLINATION (DEG): 55.060 55.049
> ECCENTRICITY (DEG): 0.000032 0.677763
> SEMI-MAJOR AXIS (KM): 6563.2256 20425.8946
> ARGUMENT OF PERIGEE (DEG): 299.968 262.623
> RA OF ASCENDING NODE (DEG): 310.308 310.050
> MEAN ANOMALY (DEG): 127.538 1.775
> START ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:000:13:52.000 001:03:57.000
> END ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET: 001:03:57.000 002:13:12.000
> HEIGHT (KM): 191.1184 278.8667
> INJECTION LATITUDE (DEG): 49.38N 54.862S
> INJECTION LONGITUDE (DEG): 309.32E 161.524E
> INJECTION INERTIAL AZIMUTH (DEG): 61.262 82.542
> INJECTION TIME (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS): 305/00:58:52.000 305/01:48:57.000
>
> SPACECRAFT SEPAR
> EPOCH (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS): 305/02:58:12.000
> PERIOD (MIN): 713.840
> INCLINATION (DEG): 63.553
> ECCENTRICITY (DEG): 0.717333
> SEMI-MAJOR AXIS (KM): 26458.2399
> ARGUMENT OF PERIGEE (DEG): 271.422
> RA OF ASCENDING NODE (DEG): 314.622
> MEAN ANOMALY (DEG): 34.695
> START ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET:002:13:12.000
> END ORBIT TIME (HHH:MM:SS.SSS)MET: 013:00:00.000
> HEIGHT (KM): 14974.7365
> INJECTION LATITUDE (DEG): 31.05N
> INJECTION LONGITUDE (DEG): 247.07E
> INJECTION INERTIAL AZIMUTH (DEG): 31.326
> INJECTION TIME (D/HH:MM:SS.SSS): 305/02:58:12.000
>
>
> SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
>
> (U) LIFTOFF TO INJECTION:
> EVENT HH:MM:SS
> LIFTOFF 00:00:00
> STAGE 1 IGNITION 00:01:55
> TCA JETTISON 00:01:56
> SRMU SEPARATION 00;02:03
> PAYLOAD FAIRING SEPARATION 00:03:56
> STAGE 1 SHUTDOWN 00:05:06
> STAGE 2 IGNITION 00:05:06
> STAGE 2 SHUTDOWN 00:08:50
> CENTAUR MECO 1 00:13:43
> PARK ORBIT INJECTION 00:13:52
> CENTAUR MES 2 00:59:18
> CENTAUR MECO 2 01:03:26
> TRANSFER ORBIT INJECTION 01:03;57
> CENTAUR MES 3 01:55:31
> CENTAUR MECO 3 01:56:28
> FINAL ORBIT INJECTION 01:57:09
> SPACECRAFT SEPARATION 02:13:12
>
>
> GENERAL INFORMATION
>
> (U) OBJECTS TO ACHIEVE ORBIT: TWO - PAYLOAD AND CENTAUR R/B
> PAYLOAD IS 40 FEET BY 15 FEET. CENTAUR ROCKETBODY IS 29 FEET BY 14 FEET
>
> (U) LAUNCH VEHICLE DESCRIPTION: TITAN IVA
>
> (U) MISSION NARRATIVE: CLASSIFIED
>
> (U) COMMUNICATIONS FREQUENCIES
> ROCKETBODY: 2287.5MHZ 20 WATTS(S-BAND)
> 2255.5MHZ 7.5 WATTS WIDEBAND INSTRUMENT
>
> (U) OBJECT DESIGNATIONS:
> INT
> OBJECT COMMON NAME DSG CTY
> PAYLOAD USA XXX A US
> ROCKETBODY TITAN 4A CENTAUR R/B B US
>
>
>