Friday, August 21, 2009

USA-179

 2004-034A


It was announced that the NROL-1 launch was to a 57 deg orbit ascent trajectory; on-board engine was used to reach final orbit. Parking orbit was elliptical.

The launch vehicle was nicknamed 'Nemesis'. It probably carried an SDS communications payload. The vehicle is tentatively identified as the object labelled 90027 by independent observers, found in Dec 2004 in a 717 minute orbit.


NROL-1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2004 Aug 31  2317:00  Launch by Atlas IIAS AC-167 CC LC36A 
  T+0:59 SRM 3-4 on 
  T+1:17 SRM 1-2 sep 
  T+1:56 SRM 3-4 sep 
  T+2:44 BECO 
  T+2:47 Booster package jettison 
  T+3:38 Fairing sep
  T+4:57 SECO at 150 km? 
  T+4:58 Atlas sep 
 2322 T+5:15 Centaur MES-1 
 2327 T+10:02 MECO-1 off Canada  191 x 400? x 58.4 
2004 Sep 1  
 0025 T+1:08:31 MES-2 over S Pacific 
 0026 T+1:09:45 MECO-2  255 x 15370 x 57.4  
   267 x 15379 x 58.0 (UN)  
 0030 T+1:13:47 Centaur sep  
2004 Dec 6    717.75 1778 x 38574 x 623.0 
2008 Jan 30    717.40 859 x 39477 x 63.0 

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