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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 401.1 | | MONSTR::HUGHES | | Fri Feb 19 1988 12:26 | 5 |
| I heard that the attempt was on Wednesday. One chunk impact in ocean,
somewhere near Australia. Other pieces are expected to re-enter
in the next few days; some may survive to impact.
gary
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| 401.2 | | MONSTR::HUGHES | | Fri Feb 19 1988 14:03 | 7 |
| CNN also reported that they lost a 'commercial satellite' (I think
they mean a comsat) on Jan 31.
Nothing in this weeks AW&ST about it. There is an ad for the Proton
launch vehicle though.
gary
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| 401.3 | Nav sats | IMGAWN::BIRO | | Mon Feb 22 1988 11:59 | 8 |
| What I have heard the accident happen in the transfer orbit
stage, there were three satelites to be rasied in orbit and
it was believe that they were navigations satellites
this is about the 3rd photon failure in about a year
jb
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| 401.4 | | MONSTR::HUGHES | | Mon Feb 22 1988 15:05 | 13 |
| That sounds consistant. The two recent Proton failures have occured
after reaching parking orbit and the Soviets have explained them
as having been related to the use of a new, 'high energy' transfer
or escape stage. Maybe this is the D-2 variant that occasionally
gets mentioned?
Just out of curiousity, any particular reason why you favour the
spelling 'photon' over 'proton'? I beleive 'proton' is the phonetic
translation but I suspect 'photon' may be what the russian characters
translate to in english. 'Vostok' comes over as 'boctok' and 'soyuz' as
'sojuz' when translated character at a time. How does RM pronounce it?
gary
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| 401.5 | A somewhat educated guess | SARAH::BUEHLER | Customer, kus'tum�er, n. See Paycheck. | Tue Feb 23 1988 15:39 | 11 |
| > Just out of curiousity, any particular reason why you favour the
> spelling 'photon' over 'proton'? I beleive 'proton' is the phonetic
> translation but I suspect 'photon' may be what the russian characters
> translate to in english. 'Vostok' comes over as 'boctok' and 'soyuz' as
> 'sojuz' when translated character at a time. How does RM pronounce it?
If my russian holds up, the phonetic syrillic for Proton would look like
"IIPOTOH", where the II is a single glyph. I know not where the accent should
be placed.
John
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| 401.6 | 1988 009 | IMGAWN::BIRO | | Tue Feb 23 1988 15:58 | 30 |
| re: 4 and 5
I think I just misspelled Proton, I will check the TASS news
and see what there spelling it. Adds in AW has it spelled PROTON
11,000 lbs to the MOON MARS or VENUS
as for lost in space, here is a NASA element set that fits
it was launch on the right day and OBJ A and B are missing
It may be of some interest to someone trying to develop
a deorbiting Prediciton program
1988 009C Set: 0 Object: 18857
Epoch Year: 1988 Day: 48.255054120 Orbit # 4
Inclination = 64.93980000 R.A.A.N = 186.72280000
Eccentricity = 0.00615050 Arg of Per = 169.18040000
Mean Anomaly = 196.06090000 Mean Motion = 16.46275878
Drag = 0.21572E-01 Frequency = 0.000
S.M.A. = 6527.2567 Anom Period = 87.4702
Apogee Ht = 189.2426 Perigee Ht = 108.9508
1988 009D Set: 11 Object: 18858
Epoch Year: 1988 Day: 49.473477710 Orbit # 24
Inclination = 64.80560000 R.A.A.N = 181.71530000
Eccentricity = 0.00124650 Arg of Per = 47.96400000
Mean Anomaly = 312.24890000 Mean Motion = 16.43719991
Drag = 0.19076E-01 Frequency = 0.000
S.M.A. = 6534.0213 Anom Period = 87.6062
Apogee Ht = 164.0060 Perigee Ht = 147.7166
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