Author Topic: LIVE: Proton-M launch with Nimiq 5 satellite - September 17, 2009 (Read 26508 times)

Phillip Clark · « **Reply #60 on:** 09/18/2009 04:01 pm »

According to the ILS mission overview, the planned separation orbit of Nimiq 5 from the Briz-M stage was 13.0 deg, 9,490-35,786 km.

Finally, the equivalent orbit has been issued by USSSN for 50A: 12.97 deg, 9,434-35,824 km. The epoch of the orbit is to 0.1 day so this might well be a preliminary "quick look" orbit, which will later be refined.

The tank has yet to be catalogued as a separate piece (same for Briz-M), so there might be additional orbital data erroneously issued for that under the 50A designator until USSSN sorts out its data.