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The 174-foot-tall H-2A rocket has four hours (launch window) to take off Tuesday from the Tanegashima Space Center, beginning at 0516 GMT Initial Geo Transfer Orbit: Apogee 35,976 kilometers, Perigee 250 kilometers and an inclination of 22.4 degrees The LE-5B engines second burn is scheduled to end about 27 minutes after liftoff, then the second stage will set up for deployment of Himawari 8 about a minute later.(Fuel dump spectacle may be observed?) The satellite will consume much of its propellant in the first few weeks after launch as it climbs into its operational circular orbit about 22,300 miles over the equator. At that altitude, the spacecrafts orbital velocity will match the rate of Earths rotation, allowing it to hover over Asia and the Pacific Ocean to collect real-time views of clouds and storms over the Eastern Hemisphere. Himawari 8s position will be fixed over 140 degrees east longitude for a mission scheduled to last at least eight years for the Japan Meteorological Agency. spaceflightnow/h2a/f25/141006preview/#.VDNct2eSySo
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 03:38:00 +0000

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