USA 129 obs 980419

Marco Hahn (Marco_Hahn@sl.maus.de)
Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:08:00 +0200

Kommentar zu P9699@BB in der Gruppe SeeSat-Mailingliste

Moin Bjoern,

BG>the maneuvre appears to have been made on Apr.02, possibly around 20:2=
6 UT.

using your elset

BG>USA 129 Apr 3-19
BG>1 24680U 96072  A 98108.90064327  .00027449  00000-0  27485-3 0    10
BG>2 24680  97.8178 169.5787 0505804  29.3849 333.4817 14.82951788    15

this leads to the satellite being over Greenland at the beginning of the
maneuvre, thereafter moving towards continental USA. Is this common pract=
ice or
just a coincidence? I rather expect the first, since it's then possible t=
o
evaluate the new orbit immediately.

Hej d=86, Marco