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Subject: re: launch windows
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 01:13:03 EST
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From: WOO IL LEE <lee@su-star>


	I would like to clear up something that has me confused. Up to
now I have assumed that the PAM upper stage starts its burn when the
shuttle's orbit crosses the equatorial plane, and that the longitude of
this intersection is chosen so that the transfer orbit's perigee is near
the satellite's final station.
	Is this correct? Does the shuttle maneuver so as to establish
the proper nodes? Or does PAM have a plane change capability? ( I am
sure the IUS does).
			Puzzled
				Emilio P. Calius
				Stanford Univ.
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