The launch of AEHF 3 has been delayed to 2013 Sep 18 at 08:10 UTC. http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av041/status.html Here is the approximate MECO 2 (T+00:27:35) TLE, assuming launch at 08:10 UTC: AHEF 3 176 X 50084 km 1 75600U 13261.35943288 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06 2 75600 20.7000 301.5452 7920000 180.0000 1.1497 1.55264620 09 Not long after spacecraft separation (T+00:50:58), the Centaur will perform a CCAM (collision and contamination avoidance manoeuvre) followed by blowdown of any remaining propellants, which should be complete by about 4400 s after separation, or about 10:14 UTC, which is the epoch of the search TLE: Centaur 88 X 50428 km 1 75601U 13261.42638890 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 05 2 75601 20.4000 302.9452 7956000 178.2500 37.9467 1.54321810 03 Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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