In my Metop launch announcement on 13-OCT-06 I mentioned that the Fregat upper stage would lower its perigee by 100 km after seperation from Metop. I now learned that they will actually do a proper de-orbit burn. This 20 second burn will start at 18:14:58 UTC (17-OCT-06) half a minute after exit from Earth shadow. Reentry will be over the Pacific at 18:53 UTC. Note that this burn takes place when Metop and Fregat are visible from parts of Eastern and Central Europe. Once again the scheduled time for liftoff is at 16:28:13 UTC on 17-OCT-06. A TLE set for Metop after seperation from Fregat at 17:36 UTC is: Metop Sep 1 99999 06044A 06290.73399421 0.00000000 00000-0 34635-4 0 1 2 99999 98.7320 348.2812 0001000 155.4951 132.7896 14.21435203 1 And obviously the TLE set I gave for Fregat is obsolete. Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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