04-11-2019, 06:09 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by blackshire
AOS (Acquisition Of Signal) has occurred over western Africa, and television views from the Stage 2 onboard cameras are now visible. (UPDATE: LIVE coverage has just resumed!)
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Nominal Orbit Insertion! The 85-second Stage 2 second burn increased the vehicle's velocity by 2800 m/s (meters per second), which will carry it 90,000 kilometers high--definitely an STO (Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit). Arabsat will separate from Stage 2 in about four minutes. After that, I suspect that the stage will perform a retro-burn to lower its perigee, to ensure a disposal burn-in (re-entry) soon. |