Originally Posted by M60:
“What I want to know, and Analoguesat can probably tell us, is how long is it before 1N reaches it's GSO from GTO? I presume it's something like 5hrs (from snippits of info on Wikipedia)?”
They said four orbits with burns at each apogee to circularise the GTO into GSO. So how long will each GTO orbit be? 24 hours? And what GSO orbital position will it start off in?
Also there did not seem to be any change in launcher characteristics for the change in 1N location and it seems to be up to the customer to move his satellite into the required orbital position, wherever that may be.