Get a string and a globe and seat-of-your-pants take a gander at
the first rev ground track,
and it IS unusual in terms of WHOM it goes right over the head of.


"Henry Spencer" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jim Oberg wrote:
Launch is set for Monday -- take a look at
the unusual ascent trajectory, and follow the
plot out a few more thousand miles....

Unless it's hiding behind some of the stupid Flash nonsense, I didn't see
a trajectory plot... In any case, the description and the orbital
elements are consistent with a launch toward a 95.4-deg inclination -- one
of the standard Baikonur-Soyuz inclinations -- plus a bit of yaw steering
by the Fregat stage to reach 98.7. Not a path Baikonur uses every week,
but not anything especially new and strange.
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