Re: Starshine elements on OIG

From: Mir16609@aol.com
Date: Sun Sep 30 2001 - 21:39:43 EDT

  • Next message: Ron Lee: "Re: Starshine elements on OIG"

    In a message dated 9/30/01 8:47:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
    ronlee@pcisys.net writes:
    
    > STARSHINE 3
    >  1 26929U 01043A   01273.74787911  .00000117  00000-0  99407-5 0    32
    >  2 26929  67.0547 116.9225 0004869 219.7596 140.3140 15.31508213    81
    >  PICOSAT 9
    >  1 26930U 01043B   01273.71832893  .00002462  00000-0  10000-2 0    46
    >  2 26930  67.0018 117.2433 0006899 226.6208 133.4649 14.29197653    88
    >  PCSAT
    >  1 26931U 01043C   01273.71851883 -.00040117  00000-0 -15978-1 0    24
    >  2 26931  67.0590 117.2492 0007303 251.5352 108.5419 14.28720379    81
    >  SAPPHIRE
    >  1 26932U 01043D   01273.64841087 -.00000082  00000-0  00000+0 0    26
    >  2 26932  67.0551 117.4309 0006169 258.2789 100.5790 14.28317644    86
    >  ATHENA 1 R/B(OAM)
    >  1 26933U 01043E   01273.60463422 -.00001738  54956-5  00000+0 0    18
    >  2 26933  67.1792 117.4881 0133767 284.6414  75.5706 15.85365252    61
    
    Once again, I'm confused.  PICOSAT 9,  PCSAT, and SAPPHIRE are released 
    first, then the R/B drops into a lower orbit and STARSHINE 3 is released.   
    How does STARSHINE 3 become the "A" object of the launch?  Lottery?
    
    Cheers,
    Don Gardner  39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL
    http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
    
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