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Arianne Polar Trajectory
How does one launch a into a polar orbit from French Guyana? Where
does the first and second stage drop? I understand they are not bombing New England, but how do they avoid this? Internet searches are not helping. |
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I wondered about this as well, when you have to launch that way, what
happens? Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________ "Charles Talleyrand" wrote in message oups.com... How does one launch a into a polar orbit from French Guyana? Where does the first and second stage drop? I understand they are not bombing New England, but how do they avoid this? Internet searches are not helping. |
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French Guiana is further east than most ppl think. I beleive its in
the same time zone as the Maritime Provinces. When those stages are expended they are well over the ocean. On 29 May 2005 23:01:44 -0700, "Charles Talleyrand" wrote: How does one launch a into a polar orbit from French Guyana? Where does the first and second stage drop? I understand they are not bombing New England, but how do they avoid this? Internet searches are not helping. |
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On Sun, 29 May 2005, in sci.space.tech,
Charles Talleyrand said: How does one launch a into a polar orbit from French Guyana? Where does the first and second stage drop? I understand they are not bombing New England, but how do they avoid this? Kourou, French Guyana is 53W, Cape Cod is more than 70W; there's no need to worry particularly that stages will fall on Boston. Assuming a launch azimuth of zero degrees (i.e., right up the line of longitude), the centre line of the range first encounters land at St. John's, on the eastern tip of the island of Newfoundland. After that it continues over the sea until it reaches the north-western limb of Greenland. All in all, I can think of few Atlantic launching sites that would have a longer range over sea at zero azimuth. This site: http://satobs.org/faq/Chapter-09.txt says that Kourou launches can be as much as minus eleven degrees azimuth. Supposing it were a problem, launching a few degrees further east, then correcting the path later ("dogleg" manoeuvre) would be an option. -- Del Cotter Thanks to the recent increase in UBE, I will soon be ignoring email sent to . Please send your email to del2 instead. |
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JRS: In article .com
, dated Sun, 29 May 2005 23:01:44, seen in news:sci.space.tech, Charles Talleyrand posted : How does one launch a into a polar orbit from French Guyana? Where does the first and second stage drop? I understand they are not bombing New England, but how do they avoid this? Internet searches are not helping. Try looking at an Atlas. Kourou Town itself is at near enough 52.5 deg W, and straight North from there touches, more or less, the outer corner of Newfoundland, then, after a further distance, West Greenland. The distance from Kourou to Newfoundland is not much less than that from Canaveral to Europe/Africa; so either the Newfoundlanders don't have anything to worry about, but we do. Subject to adjustment for the position of the launch site with respect to the town, the exact inclination of the desired orbit, the possibility of a modest dog-leg, ... AIUI, the first stage in each case drops much nearer to the launch site than to anywhere ahead, and any subsequent stages are expected to go much further and come down in fairly little bits, like STS ET. -- © John Stockton, Surrey, UK. Turnpike v4.00 MIME. © Web URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/ - FAQqish topics, acronyms & links; Astro stuff via astron-1.htm, gravity0.htm ; quotings.htm, pascal.htm, etc. No Encoding. Quotes before replies. Snip well. Write clearly. Don't Mail News. |
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