Does Celestrak have [FASTRAC] in their catalog yet?
PCSAT was also launched out of Kodiak back in 2001 into a 61 degree orbit....
We just played with the elements for PCSAT and changed the inclination to 72 degrees and mean motion until we got 650km and then adjusted RAAN until we got the orbit over Kodiak, and then changed the EPOC time until we got the satellite over Kodiak at launch time.
Here are the elements we ended up with: Epoc 11/19/2010 04:30 UTC MA 140 MM 14.7 Inc 72 E .0018 AP 16.08 RAAN 130
Based on a launch at 01:24 UTC on the 20th, the first pass in range of Hawaii and California, will be in minutes and probably the satellite will not have separated or be activated. But a half orbit later, the first ground stations will be Eastern Europe. Then a descending pass over Hawaii at T + 100 minutes and then Central Europe about 3 hours after launch followed by Japan and New Zealand. The next pass is over Europe Japan and NZ again, Not until almost 9 hours later will we see it on the east coast.
All of these first 3 passes in the Northern Hemisphere begin about 4 AM through 7:30 AM local time. New Zealand passes are in the Afternoon.
All of the above can be TOTALLY Wrong and groundless if our assumptions are wrong.
Bob, WB4APR