Iridium 88

 1998-074A

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Iridium 88 was launched on 1998 Dec 19 at 1130 UTC from Taiyuan. It was assigned the operation number 20. The satellite was kept in an intermediate orbit until Apr 1999 when it moved to the operational constellation.

Iridium 88
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1998 Dec 19	1139:44	Launch by CZ-2C/SD
		T+2:02 Stage 1 MECO
		T+2:03 Stage 1 sep, Stage 2 burn
		T+3:50 Fairing
		T+5:02 Stage 2 MECO
	1149:55	T+10:11 Stage 2 VECO
	1149:58	T+10:14 Stage 2 sep	92.89 177 x 655 x 86.37
	1227:52	T+48:08 SD burn
	1228:28	T+48:44 SD burnout	97.50 622 x 655 x 86.4
	1229:47	T+50:03 SD sep
	1233:38	T+53:54 SD deorbit burn	92.94 212 x 624 x 86.33
1998 Dec 26			97.55 625 x 657 x 86.4
1999 Jan 1			97.60 627 x 659 x 86.4
1999 Jan 7			98.78 687 x 713 x 86.5
1999 Apr 1			98.78 686 x 714 x 86.5
1999 Apr 5			99.37 722 x 734 x 86.5
1999 Apr 10			100.40 776 x 778 x 86.4