Chandra orbit post IPS-3

Jonathan McDowell (jcm@head-cfa.harvard.edu)
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:00:44 -0400 (EDT)

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Post IPS-3 orbit, J2000 classical elements
 Time 99212 2300:00 UTC
 SMA  77810.68954 km
 e    0.873287
 i    28.45332 deg
 RAAN 194.90984 deg
 AOP  270.36619 deg
 Mean anomaly  0.93687 deg

so orbit is 3482 km x 139384 km x 28.45 deg, very close
to the planned one. Two more smaller burns to raise
perigee to 10000 km are planned.
  - Jonathan McDowell, Chandra X-ray Center

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