He he.....nice idea Tony.....are you going to suggest it to Yves ? Europe could get a glimpse around 0600 gmt tomorrow. On present figures am I right in thinking decay will be just before Christmas ? John Subject: Re: geo sat in leo orbit > At 18:45 26/11/02, John locker wrote: > >Just off the phone having spoken to Yves.Feltes > > > >of SES Global in Baikanur. > > > >He assures me that whilst this is a problematic situation , they are in full > >control , and at present trying to lift the orbit, > > > >There is no danger of an uncontrolled re-entry. > John, and Kevin. > Just some wild speculation , given the TLEs for the docked shuttle and > the ASTRA 1K, > STS-113 DOCK > 1 27556U 02052A 02330.12944970 .00002760 00000-0 33459-4 0 93 > 2 27556 51.6360 319.8445 0013901 178.2745 181.8299 15.59838646 340 > ASTRA 1K/BLOCK DM > 1 27557U 02053A 02330.25972753 .00936447 12194-4 14499-3 0 23 > 2 27557 51.5636 58.4671 0011454 163.7640 196.3800 16.33033589 50 > > perhaps if they raised the orbit enough to lower drag, and then waited > for differential precession to align the orbit planes, perhaps with a few > orbit raising manouvres to cancel atmospheric drag, they could then > raise the orbit enough to rendevous with the ISS. Then a future shuttle > mission to shutlle could return astra 1k to earth and the insurers would have a satellite to sell. If this is used I expect a .1 percent of value fee -)( > Tony Beresford > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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