Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Comsats (was:Canada and comsat history)
Message-ID: <1988Nov14.181347.27091@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Nov13.062139.1075@utzoo.uucp> <1158@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 88 18:13:47 GMT

In article <1158@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
>I would go for Courier IB, a 1960 satellite which was the first active
>repeater...

@#@#%$#, I forgot about Courier.  You're right.

>> Syncom II (dunno what happened to Syncom I, launch failure?) was the first
>> more-or-less Clarke-orbit comsat, 
>
>Syncom I had its apogee motor blow up. Syncom II was inclined 33 deg...

Yes, that's why I said "more-or-less Clarke-orbit".  It was close enough,
with its apparent motion in the sky slow enough, to demonstrate that the
idea was workable but that an equatorial orbit was in order.
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