Re: Iridium Lost
Bjoern Gimle (bjorn@tt-tech.se)
Wed, 22 Oct 1997 17:40:58 +0100
"...Motorola Satellite Communications has informed Iridium LLC that
it has experienced a problem with the attitude control for one of the
IRIDIUM satellites prior to attaining final orbit. ..."
This should be Irdm 27, still in MM=15.03 H=557 km orbit.
The normal MM is 14.34 (H=785 km)
But Irdm 36 is the only one from the latest launch that is
also at MM=15.03 !
Iridium 27 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 d 564 x 549 km
1 24947U 97051D 97294.77213122 -.00011391 00000-0 -83964-3 0 748
2 24947 86.6403 46.1990 0010689 123.9198 236.3051 15.03506702 5689
Iridium 28 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 d 779 x 777 km
1 24948U 97051E 97294.22396609 -.00000699 00000-0 -25682-3 0 710
2 24948 86.4019 46.7286 0000985 42.1519 317.9747 14.34216655 5420
...
Iridium 36 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 d 567 x 546 km
1 24967U 97056C 97294.44706286 -.00023161 00000-0 -17086-2 0 375
2 24967 86.7020 78.2999 0014897 148.5064 211.7122 15.03436917 3664
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