From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f5d3389a08744849,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!134.158.69.22.MISMATCH!in2p3.fr!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: When accuracy is required Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:52:05 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <5i9idd.fr6.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1123855291 8840 195.25.228.57 (12 Aug 2005 14:01:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:01:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: fr, en Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4097 Date: 2005-08-12T15:52:05+02:00 List-Id: Today, an Ariane5 launched the biggest communication satellite ever built (6.5 tons). According to http://www.arianespace.com, here are the technical data (achieved, targetted, and tolerance): Perigee: 574.8 km for a target of 575 km (�3 km) Apogee: 35,875 km for a target of 35,894 km (�160 km) Inclination: 6.98 degrees for a target of 7.00 degrees (�0.06�) (For those who are new to this subgroup: the guidance software of Ariane5 is entirely in Ada). -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr