AMC -14 story gets more interesting

[Dah-Henny]

Whoever owns it has managed to get the inclination down to 30 degrees and perigee to 6127 km.

 

[k1wy-bill]

Continuing orbit adjustment

As of Saturday AMC-14 orbit has continued to change. Looks like it could be a true geo satellite soon.

Inclination 19.367
Perigee x Apogee 16,859 x 35,584 km

 

[vegassatellite]

As of Saturday AMC-14 orbit has continued to change. Looks like it could be a true geo satellite soon.

Inclination 19.367
Perigee x Apogee 16,859 x 35,584 km

As opposed to being a deep sea vessel, I guess that's good news.

 

[Smith P.]

^Bump.

 

[vicw]

Not sure why this thread deserves to be bumped. The orbit hasn't improved in many days.

 

[Rey]

what exactly is happening with this sat? i thought this was done and over with.

 

[Dah-Henny]

1 32708U 08011A 08160.80037126 -.00000046 00000-0 10000-3 0 886
2 32708 019.4282 143.5810 2860098 018.4856 279.9455 01.47154443 1752

Epoch (UTC): 7:12:32 PM, Sunday, June 08, 2008
Eccentricity: 0.2860098
Inclination: 019.4282°
Perigee Height: 16,933 km
Apogee Height: 35,610 km
Right Ascension of Ascending Node: 143.5810°
Argument of Perigee: 018.4856°
Revolutions per Day: 01.47154443
Mean Anomaly at Epoch: 279.9455°
Orbit Number at Epoch: 175

 

[FitzAusTex]

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1 32708U 08011A 08160.80037126 -.00000046 00000-0 10000-3 0 886
2 32708 019.4282 143.5810 2860098 018.4856 279.9455 01.47154443 1752

Epoch (UTC): 7:12:32 PM, Sunday, June 08, 2008
Eccentricity: 0.2860098
Inclination: 019.4282°
Perigee Height: 16,933 km
Apogee Height: 35,610 km
Right Ascension of Ascending Node: 143.5810°
Argument of Perigee: 018.4856°
Revolutions per Day: 01.47154443
Mean Anomaly at Epoch: 279.9455°
Orbit Number at Epoch: 175

Can anyone explain this in layman's terms? Is it closer to being deorbited, closer to being in a 'junkyard' orbit, or closer to being in 'some sort' of useable orbit?

 

[Dah-Henny]

It has been stated, but not confirmed that the DOD purchased the satellite. For their purposes, it either is, or is close to an orbit that they can use it for whatever they intend to do.

 

[tempVAdish]

Target Practice?????

 

[Smith P.]

Why not ? You can't practice laser beam weapon on existing sats at Clarke belt, but just think how important to shut off enemy's GEO communication sat in case of past Red Alert. Don't you think generals did not planned the take-down ? But if you'll ask for practice - how many of them happened ? You can count on one hand all of them.