Re: Redesignations

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:40:24 +0100

Further to the redesignations of these two objects...

>UOSAT 12                1999-021A         25693         21 APRIL 1999
>SNAP 1                  1999-021B         25694         21 APRIL 1999
>               (PREVIOUSLY 1999-022A, 022B)

... I understand that the second object is not SNAP-1 but rather a
shroud cover from the Dnepr rocket, which is what I call it in my
select.tle elset file. There have been reports, for example in
yesterday's Jonathan's Space Report
      http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html
that B is actually the UoSAT-12 and A is the shroud.

I note that SpaceCom have now switched the identities as shown by the
following successive elsets...

(Shroud)                                         653 x 639 km
1 25693U 99021A   99117.98099602  .00002052  00000-0  32545-3 0   101
2 25693  64.5593 297.8252 0009890 315.5309  44.4998 14.74776301   981
UoSAT-12         0.3  0.0  0.0  9.5 d            652 x 650 km
1 25693U 99021A   99118.79472056  .00000288  00000-0  65030-4 0   115
2 25693  64.5600 295.3987 0001778   3.6406 312.5464 14.73156733  1100

(UoSAT-12)                                       652 x 650 km
1 25694U 99021B   99117.98838398  .00000106  00000-0  36848-4 0   306
2 25694  64.5604 297.8564 0001433   6.9127 353.1995 14.73154985   989
UoSAT-12 Dnepr deb (shroud)                      653 x 639 km
1 25694U 99021B   99118.80300582  .00002015  00000-0  31988-3 0    82
2 25694  64.5611 295.3188 0009707 313.8018  90.2123 14.74779658  1101

Alan
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