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MaggieL · 07-25-2003, 10:01 PM

AMSAT OSCAR 40 was supposed to be in a Molniya-type orbit too, but the rocket motor intended to steepen the inclination failed, leaving it in basically a geosynchronous transfer orbit at about +- 5 degrees inclination. There's about half a dozen operating amateur radio satellites these days.

I don't know what color they are on the pic. :-)

see http://www.phil-mont.org/AO40/AO40Notes.html

07-25-2003, 10:01 PM	#24
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	AMSAT OSCAR 40 was supposed to be in a Molniya-type orbit too, but the rocket motor intended to steepen the inclination failed, leaving it in basically a geosynchronous transfer orbit at about +- 5 degrees inclination. There's about half a dozen operating amateur radio satellites these days. I don't know what color they are on the pic. :-) see http://www.phil-mont.org/AO40/AO40Notes.html __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."