Re: Progress manoeuvered OK
Neil Clifford (n.clifford1@physics.oxford.ac.uk)
Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:20:51 +0100 (BST)
Don Horton scribbles:
|>PROGRESS M-34
|>1 99934U 97096.84632249 .00089254 33053-7 10474-3 0 15
|>2 99934 51.6515 84.9369 0029281 134.7360 225.6044 16.06921815 40
|>
|>State Vector courtesy Vladimir Agapov converted using Ken Ernandes VEC2TLE
Just a word of (slight) caution. I might be wrong but I think that
Vladimir's state vactors are epoch J2000 whilst vec2tle requires
Besselian epoch 1950. It might not amount to much difference (I can't
check at the moment) but you may wish to precess x,y,z and derivatives.
regards,
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Neil Clifford <n.clifford@physics.ox.ac.uk>
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/sat/satintro.html