Iridium 37 maneuvers

Mike McCants (mikem@freeside.fc.net)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 16:17:50 -0500 (CDT)

I happened to notice that the Friday elset for Iridium 37 had a large
"drag" term indicating a maneuver:

Iridium 37    
1 24966U 97056B   98233.35498379  .00367402  00000-0  12375+0 0  1932
2 24966  86.3913 311.3111 0007458 130.3254 229.8568 14.34788327 47156

Here are current elsets from OIG indicating continuing orbital
maneuvers:

IRIDIUM 37
1 24966U 97056B   98235.23848964  .00026205  00000-0  93005-2 0  1980
2 24966  86.3979 310.5282 0004912 105.3890 254.7811 14.34286288 47425
IRIDIUM 37
1 24966U 97056B   98234.54085137  .00084078  00000-0  29623-1 0  1973
2 24966  86.3980 310.8329 0005007  94.2538 266.0086 14.34246898 47325
IRIDIUM 37
1 24966U 97056B   98234.40122953  .00003133  00000-0  11108-2 0  1968
2 24966  86.4037 310.8883 0003915 103.1736 256.6586 14.34235578 47301
IRIDIUM 37
1 24966U 97056B   98234.19197266 -.00031180  00000-0 -11108-1 0  1956
2 24966  86.4029 310.9632 0005678 110.3693 249.7865 14.34591519 47274
IRIDIUM 37
1 24966U 97056B   98234.12198906 -.00022971  00000-0 -81727-2 0  1943
2 24966  86.4011 310.9879 0004993 102.5979 256.3719 14.34612504 47266

It is currently coming out of the Earth's shadow about midnight
local daylight time at latitude 50 north.

Mike McCants