Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Satellite Retrieval Message-ID: <607@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 10:08:19 EST Article-I.D.: ihlts.607 Posted: Mon Nov 5 10:08:19 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 06:43:15 EST References: <4079@decwrl.UUCP> <213@mouton.UUCP> Organization: Starfleet Headquarters Lines: 9 I don't really know, but I thought the satellites were left in a 28.5-degree inclination orbit. I thought the apogee kick motor is what put it into an equatorial orbit (as well as circularizing at geosynchronous altitude). I have been under the impression that the PAM-Ds only extended the apogee of the elliptical orbit. Am I off-base? Does the PAM change planes *and* increase apogee and all the AKM does is circularize? I'm fairly certain the AKMs were not fired last February because of the PAM failures. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe