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ARLS014 STS-59 Mission delay
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Space Bulletin 014  ARLS014
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT  April 5, 1994
To all radio amateurs

STS-59 Mission Delay

The STS-59 Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment mission has been delayed
24 hrs due to some extra inspections that need to be performed at
the launch site.  Tentative launch of the Shuttle Endeavour will be
on April 8 at 1206 UTC.

Thanks to Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO of the SAREX Working Group for the
preceding information.

STS-59
1 00059U          94098.74878017  .00221188  00000-0  11303-3 0    80
2 00059  57.0053 277.0416 0009259 269.9963  90.0094 16.19806752    54

Satellite: STS-59
Catalog number: 00059
Epoch time:      94098.74878017   =    (08 APR 94   17:58:14.61 UTC)
Element set:     008
Inclination:       57.0053 deg
RA of node:       277.0416 deg           Space Shuttle Flight STS-59
Eccentricity:     .0009259              Prelaunch Element set JSC-008
Arg of perigee:   269.9963 deg          Launch:  08 APR 94  12:06 UTC
Mean anomaly:      90.0094 deg
Mean motion:   16.19806752 rev/day              G. L. Carman
Decay rate:    2.21188e-03 rev/day sq      NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev:               5
Checksum:              325

Thanks to Gil Carman, WA5NOM, NASA Johnson Space Center for the
preceding Keplerian element set.
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