Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cca!ima!haddock!stevel From: stevel@haddock.UUCP Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Launch Windows Message-ID: <380@haddock.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 23:47:32 EST Article-I.D.: haddock.380 Posted: Fri Mar 8 23:47:32 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 05:07:07 EST Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:tellab2:-22500:haddock:10400012:000:507 Nf-From: haddock!stevel Mar 7 15:03:00 1985 There are telemetry and tracking considerations as well as orbital insertion considerations. They like to deploy satilites so that they are talking to ground stations just before and just after burn. Sometimes I have read that the time is set so it can be optically tracked by telescope. For the India Palapa B I belive it the burn was to take place over India shortly after sunrise because of the above considerations. Sketchilly yours Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {ihnp4!cbosgd}!ima!stevel