[FPSPACE] Palapa-D 1 launch

[Phillip Clark]

Just posted the following to NASA Spaceflight.com website:

Looks to have been a third stage under-burn to geosynch transfer orbit.   USSSN has catalogued two objects, as follows:

46A   35812      22.33 deg   369.48 minutes   221 km   21,135 km

46B   35813      22.29 deg   370.46 minutes   231 km   21,186 km

These orbits may be subject to revision as more tracking data come available, but they should be in the right ballpark.   The mass of Palapa-D 1 is about 4,100 kg, according to Gunter Krebs' website, so this would not need the launcher to fly with such a low apogee.

Oh dear. 
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