Bram Dorreman, Marco Langbroek, Tim Luton, and I, contributed observations used to produce the following elements: NOSS 3-5 (A) 1014 X 1207 km 1 37386U 11014A 11109.03529943 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 37386 63.4167 342.7336 0128413 180.9847 179.0943 13.39317170 08 Arc 20110418.84-0419.07 WRMS resid 0.037 totl 0.012 xtrk NOSS 3-5 (B) 1015 X 1207 km 1 79937U 11014B 11109.03548857 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 07 2 79937 63.4167 342.7331 0128413 180.9847 179.0943 13.39251023 05 Arc 20110415.23-0419.07 WRMS resid 0.029 totl 0.023 xtrk For 11014A, only the inclination is a fixed estimate. Since there are fewer obs of 11014B, I used the elements of 11014A, adjusting only the epoch, mean anomaly and mean motion. The longer observational arc of 11014B is due to the inclusion of a synthetic observation of 11014A, near its first ascending node, when both objects should still have been close together. 11014B has yet to be publicly catalogued, but if the procedure of all four past NOSS 3 launches is followed, within a few days it will be falsely catalogued as a piece of debris of 11014A. A welcome feature of this launch was the prompt de-orbit of Atlas V-411's second stage, within a couple of hours after payload deployment. This seems to have become USAF standard operating procedure for LEO EELV missions. I believe the following list is complete; final column lists the place of disposal. Nov 2006 DMSP F17 VAFB Delta IV-Medium Pacific Ocean Oct 2009 DMSP F18 VAFB Atlas V-401 Solar orbit Apr 2010 X-37B OTV 1-1 CCAFS Atlas V-501 Solar orbit Sep 2010 FIA Radar 1 VAFB Atlas V-501 Ocean Jan 2011 USA 224 VAFB Delta IV-Heavy Pacific Ocean Mar 2011 X-37B OTV 2-1 CCAFS Atlas V-501 Indian Ocean Apr 2011 NOSS 3-5 VAFB Atlas V-411 Pacific Ocean Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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