[amsat-bb] Fox-1D Launch Live Blog

[Paul Stoetzer]

9:30 is the local time of equatorial crossing of the descending node.
A good time for convenient morning and evening passes!

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Mac A. Cody <maccody at att.net> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Beyond being placed into a sun-synchronous orbit, do you have any
> notion as to what the time of ascending node will be?  Will it be
> different than AO-91?
>
> 73,
>
> Mac Cody / AE5PH
>
>
> On 01/10/2018 05:59 PM, Paul Stoetzer wrote:
>>
>> The countdown to the launch of PSLV-C40 carrying AMSAT's Fox-1D
>> satellite is underway! The 28 hour countdown began at 23:59 UTC on
>> January 10, 2018. Fox-1D is scheduled for launch into a
>> sun-synchronous orbit at 03:59 UTC on January 12, 2018 (10:59pm EST on
>> Thursday, January 11th) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in
>> Sriharikota, India. A live blog of events, links to live video when
>> available, and more can be found at
>> https://www.amsat.org/fox-1d-launch-live-blog/
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Paul Stoetzer, N8HM
>> Executive Vice President
>> Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA)
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