[FPSPACE] Bei Dou 1 location

[Phillip Clark]

Since a lot of people interested in things Russian are also interested in
China ......


USSPACECOM has finally found Bei Dou 1 in geosynch orbit.   They show that
it is located over 140 deg E which is registered as Chinasat-32.   This
suggests that there will be two other satellites in orbit over 80 deg E
(Chinasat-31) and 110.5 deg E (Chinasat-33).

So, it seems that each of the Chinasat-0X, Chinasat-1X, Chinasat-2X,
Chinasat-3X and Chinasat-4X locations relate to a different GEO system and
that each system need not be for communications.

Phillip Clark

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Phillip S Clark                                     22 Winterbourne Close
Molniya Space Consultancy                           Hastings
Compiler/Publisher, Worldwide Satellite Launches    E Sussex  TN34 1XG
                                                    U.K.

Specialist in "space archeology" - the older and more obscure the more 
interesting it is !
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