Decaying Soyuz-U - #24758 = 97- 14 B
Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:54:47 +0100
The Soyuz-U rocket responsible for the recent Progress M-34 launch
should decay at about April 8.65 according to my calculations.
The latest OIG elset is:
Progress M-34 Soyuz-U r 202 x 178 km
1 24758U 97014B 97097.52075837 .03480006 12179-4 62925-3 0 102
2 24758 51.6467 81.2267 0018182 83.4258 276.9558 16.31114492 142
A SatEvo evolution satisfies the all of the six elsets I have for this
object to within 0.3 second and provides the following predicted elsets:
Progress M-34 Soyuz-U r 192 x 172 km
1 24758U 97014B 97097.82678727 .04914306 15821-1 67890-3 0 90051
2 24758 51.6401 79.5155 0015369 82.9814 277.1933 16.33865410 192
Progress M-34 Soyuz-U r 186 x 168 km
1 24758U 97014B 97098.01015919 .06006572 24698-1 67603-3 0 90054
2 24758 51.6396 78.4866 0013550 83.7488 276.4056 16.35852829 222
Progress M-34 Soyuz-U r 178 x 163 km
1 24758U 97014B 97098.19328124 .07862447 46477-1 67194-3 0 90054
2 24758 51.6388 77.4559 0011447 84.5175 275.6130 16.38358173 259
Progress M-34 Soyuz-U r 167 x 155 km
1 24758U 97014B 97098.37607431 .11795789 11343+0 65159-3 0 90055
2 24758 51.6378 76.4228 0008865 85.2882 274.8130 16.41845101 283
Progress M-34 Soyuz-U r 148 x 141 km
1 24758U 97014B 97098.55835618 .28067438 78100+0 43505-3 0 90051
2 24758 51.6362 75.3857 0005125 86.0618 273.9968 16.48166942 313
Progress M-34 Soyuz-U r 133 x 129 km
1 24758U 97014B 97098.61890305 .66870905 50128+1 45525-3 0 90050
2 24758 51.6351 75.0384 0002978 86.3209 273.7131 16.53166289 326
Alan
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