[FPSPACE] FW: MetOp satellite

[Javier Casado]

Well, it doesn't seem strange if you think that this satellite is to be inserted in polar orbit, what requires a westward launch (north-west or south-west; they have chosen north-west). However, a better place for this type of launch would be Plesetsk. Maybe you can tell us why Baikonur has been chosen instead (it is not optimal for this kind of orbits).
   
  Javier Casado
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:03:27 -0500
From: "Jim Oberg" <joberg at houston.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] FW: MetOp satellite
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Note the interesting launch profile of METOP -- from Baykonur,
to the northwest, across Greenland and right over the central US
on the insertion orbit. Highly unusual, to my recollection.



		
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