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To: Larry L who wrote (276)12/6/1997 12:32:00 AM
From: SidStock  Read Replies (1) of 2693
 
Larry,

The long march 2C is a good launch vehicle. It is the bigger long
march 3's that had all the problems(and took out the hotel). The
2's are supposed to be very reliable. It is a small rocket and that is
why it takes up only 2 birds. They had a successful trial launch
earlier using dummy iridium birds on the long march 2C to test the
deployment piece. So this launch should be a piece of cake.

I beileve I* is using the long march to fill out an orbital plane
after a the Delta II launch. They need 6 in each plane, and the
delta only carries 5 birds. Thus they are putting 7 into each
orbital plane. Lossing a few here and there and keeping a
few more as spares gives them the 6 to 7 in each plane they
need.

-Sid
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