Reports say Cryosat has failed to reach orbit. Suggestions of a fairing collapse?? Pj -----Original Message----- From: Gerhard HOLTKAMP [mailto:grd.holtkamp@t-online.de] Sent: 07 October 2005 22:47 To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org Subject: Cryosat Launch The European Cryosat satellite (with a mission to investigate the global ice coverage in unprecedented detail) is scheduled for launch with a Rockot booster from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 8-OCT-05 at 15:02 UTC. The planned orbit of 717.242 km altitude and 92.00 inclination will in the beginning closely follow the terminator and lead to a morning and evening visibility for much of the globe. Easter parts of Europe should be able to observe Cryosat at the end of its very first revolution, the rest of Europe follows one orbit later (and the rest of the world correspondingly). Here is a crude set of TLE's which might help in searching. Expect them to be wrong by a minute or two! Cryosat 1 99999 05000A 05281.62638889 -0.0000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 1 2 99999 92.0000 287.2285 0000000 72.5093 338.2256 14.51627195 1 With an unfavorable phase angle I would expect Cryosat to be in the mag 7 category but this can be totally wrong. I guess we'll have to try watching. Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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