Attachment Alaska Pass Support

This document pretains to SES-STA-20071116-01590 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2007111601590_606209

USN support of COSMO SkyMed-2 (FM#2) from Alaska

COSMO SkyMed-2 (FM#2) is the second in a series of a 4 spacecraft family
earth imaging satellites. COSMO-SkyMed-2 launches from Vandenberg Air force
Base, California on a Boeing Delta-II launch vehicle. Nominal lift-off time is
scheduled for: December 6th, 2007 at 00:20:00 UTC. The launch window
remains open until 00:33:00 UTC. All analysis is based on a nominal launch at
00:20:00 UTC.

The spacecraft is a Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) in a Sun-synchronous repeating
track orbit with a nominal 4:00am local time equator crossing. This orbit allows a
nominal 10 visibilities over the USN Alaska station every day. Each spacecraft
contact is on the order of 11 minutes (mean time) each.

The mission consists of a maximum of 77 passes taken from the USN tracking
station in Alaska. Not all passes will be taken. The following list contains all
possible contacts:

Facility-Alaska-Sensor-13m-To-Satellite-FM#2: Access Summary Report

13m-To-FM#2

         Access          Start Time (UTCG)              Stop Time (UTCG)          Duration (sec)
          ------           ------------------------      ------------------------    --------------
            1        6 Dec 2007 02:20:30.540          6 Dec 2007 02:30:01.050           570.510
            2        6 Dec 2007 03:56:29.347          6 Dec 2007 04:09:03.123           753.776
            3        6 Dec 2007 05:32:47.660          6 Dec 2007 05:45:38.982           771.322
            4        6 Dec 2007 07:09:00.691          6 Dec 2007 07:20:30.825           690.134
            5        6 Dec 2007 08:44:45.200          6 Dec 2007 08:54:25.774           580.574
            6        6 Dec 2007 10:19:29.857          6 Dec 2007 10:28:37.428           547.572
            7        6 Dec 2007 11:53:23.644          6 Dec 2007 12:03:54.021           630.377
            8        6 Dec 2007 13:27:38.195          6 Dec 2007 13:39:55.817           737.622
            9        6 Dec 2007 15:03:15.163          6 Dec 2007 15:16:13.770           778.607
           10        6 Dec 2007 16:40:54.161          6 Dec 2007 16:52:27.261           693.100
           11        6 Dec 2007 18:21:41.424          6 Dec 2007 18:27:48.593           367.168
           12        7 Dec 2007 02:38:22.999          7 Dec 2007 02:48:46.131           623.132
           13        7 Dec 2007 04:14:28.757          7 Dec 2007 04:27:16.127           767.369
           14        7 Dec 2007 05:50:47.559          7 Dec 2007 06:03:29.727           762.168
           15        7 Dec 2007 07:26:57.366          7 Dec 2007 07:38:06.564           669.198
           16        7 Dec 2007 09:02:33.000          7 Dec 2007 09:11:58.468           565.468
           17        7 Dec 2007 10:37:05.024          7 Dec 2007 10:46:20.881           555.857
           18        7 Dec 2007 12:10:56.691          7 Dec 2007 12:21:48.511           651.820
           19        7 Dec 2007 13:45:22.986          7 Dec 2007 13:57:55.123           752.136
           20        7 Dec 2007 15:21:19.974          7 Dec 2007 15:34:13.788           773.814
           21        7 Dec 2007 16:59:26.643          7 Dec 2007 17:10:23.525           656.882
           22        7 Dec 2007 18:41:21.102          7 Dec 2007 18:45:05.468           224.366
           23        8 Dec 2007 01:21:23.991          8 Dec 2007 01:25:47.274           263.282
           24        8 Dec 2007 02:56:17.904          8 Dec 2007 03:07:23.887           665.983
           25        8 Dec 2007 04:32:28.591          8 Dec 2007 04:45:24.509           775.918
           26        8 Dec 2007 06:08:47.196          8 Dec 2007 06:21:17.116           749.921
           27        8 Dec 2007 07:44:52.935          8 Dec 2007 07:55:40.678           647.743



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         28   8 Dec 2007 09:20:18.452    8 Dec 2007 09:29:32.411    553.959
         29   8 Dec 2007 10:54:38.649    8 Dec 2007 11:04:06.885    568.236
         30   8 Dec 2007 12:28:31.100    8 Dec 2007 12:39:44.384    673.284
         31   8 Dec 2007 14:03:11.051    8 Dec 2007 14:15:54.893    763.843
         32   8 Dec 2007 15:39:29.301    8 Dec 2007 15:52:13.617    764.316
         33   8 Dec 2007 17:18:05.855    8 Dec 2007 17:28:18.050    612.195
         34   9 Dec 2007 01:38:47.788    9 Dec 2007 01:45:19.028    391.240
         35   9 Dec 2007 03:14:14.517    9 Dec 2007 03:25:55.172    700.655
         36   9 Dec 2007 04:50:28.701    9 Dec 2007 05:03:28.527    779.825
         37   9 Dec 2007 06:26:46.459    9 Dec 2007 06:39:01.380    734.921
         38   9 Dec 2007 08:02:47.176    9 Dec 2007 08:13:13.639    626.463
         39   9 Dec 2007 09:38:01.441    9 Dec 2007 09:47:08.102    546.661
         40   9 Dec 2007 11:12:11.241    9 Dec 2007 11:21:55.303    584.062
         41   9 Dec 2007 12:46:07.328    9 Dec 2007 12:57:41.426    694.098
         42   9 Dec 2007 14:21:02.637    9 Dec 2007 14:33:54.994    772.358
         43   9 Dec 2007 15:57:43.409    9 Dec 2007 16:10:13.086    749.678
         44   9 Dec 2007 17:36:52.735    9 Dec 2007 17:46:10.049    557.314
         45   10 Dec 2007 01:56:27.816   10 Dec 2007 02:04:29.202   481.386
         46   10 Dec 2007 03:32:12.385   10 Dec 2007 03:44:20.598   728.213
         47   10 Dec 2007 05:08:28.957   10 Dec 2007 05:21:28.428   779.471
         48   10 Dec 2007 06:44:45.202   10 Dec 2007 06:56:42.812   717.611
         49   10 Dec 2007 08:20:39.851   10 Dec 2007 08:30:45.960   606.109
         50   10 Dec 2007 09:55:41.949   10 Dec 2007 10:04:45.954   544.005
         51   10 Dec 2007 11:29:43.368   10 Dec 2007 11:39:45.916   602.548
         52   10 Dec 2007 13:03:45.779   10 Dec 2007 13:15:39.437   713.658
         53   10 Dec 2007 14:38:57.976   10 Dec 2007 14:51:55.312   777.336
         54   10 Dec 2007 16:16:02.594   10 Dec 2007 16:28:12.030   729.437
         55   10 Dec 2007 17:55:48.814   10 Dec 2007 18:03:58.132   489.317
         56   11 Dec 2007 02:14:15.190   11 Dec 2007 02:23:26.799   551.609
         57   11 Dec 2007 03:50:11.177   11 Dec 2007 04:02:40.641   749.463
         58   11 Dec 2007 05:26:29.236   11 Dec 2007 05:39:24.416   775.180
         59   11 Dec 2007 07:02:43.276   11 Dec 2007 07:14:21.723   698.447
         60   11 Dec 2007 08:38:30.712   11 Dec 2007 08:48:18.192   587.480
         61   11 Dec 2007 10:13:20.094   11 Dec 2007 10:22:26.245   546.152
         62   11 Dec 2007 11:47:15.613   11 Dec 2007 11:57:38.494   622.881
         63   11 Dec 2007 13:21:26.819   11 Dec 2007 13:33:38.247   731.428
         64   11 Dec 2007 14:56:57.288   11 Dec 2007 15:09:55.731   778.443
         65   11 Dec 2007 16:34:27.220   11 Dec 2007 16:46:10.200   702.980
         66   11 Dec 2007 18:14:57.002   11 Dec 2007 18:21:39.547   402.545
         67   12 Dec 2007 02:32:06.834   12 Dec 2007 02:42:15.037   608.203
         68   12 Dec 2007 04:08:10.641   12 Dec 2007 04:20:55.649   765.008
         69   12 Dec 2007 05:44:29.426   12 Dec 2007 05:57:16.730   767.304
         70   12 Dec 2007 07:20:40.510   12 Dec 2007 07:31:58.458   677.949
         71   12 Dec 2007 08:56:19.502   12 Dec 2007 09:05:50.911   571.410
         72   12 Dec 2007 10:30:56.139   12 Dec 2007 10:40:09.112   552.973
         73   12 Dec 2007 12:04:48.529   12 Dec 2007 12:15:32.784   644.255
         74   12 Dec 2007 13:39:10.750   12 Dec 2007 13:51:37.702   746.952
         75   12 Dec 2007 15:15:00.799   12 Dec 2007 15:27:56.132   775.333
         76   12 Dec 2007 16:52:57.736   12 Dec 2007 17:04:07.285   669.549
         77   12 Dec 2007 18:34:24.953   12 Dec 2007 18:39:06.753   281.799




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Injection and Pass #1
          Access     Start Time (UTCG)          Stop Time (UTCG)            Duration (sec)
           ------   ------------------------     ------------------------    --------------
              1   6 Dec 2007 02:20:30.540       6 Dec 2007 02:30:01.050        570.510




Spacecraft Nominal Two Line elements:

FM#2
1 00020U 05001F 07340.14556713 .00000000 00000-0 -55870-4 0 99993
2 00020 97.8652 167.3955 0018616 90.6877 262.0550 14.82213313000004




                                                         Pass #1




USN Alaska coverage of COSMO SkyMed-2 (FM#2):
Chart shows first day of passes (contacts 1 – 11)




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Document Created: 2007-11-16 16:00:30
Document Modified: 2007-11-16 16:00:30

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