Decay watch: August 22
Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 09:32:06 +0100
I have just posted my final notice for #25890, the Cosmos 2365 Soyuz-U
rocket, to my Decay Watch page at
http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/
Against yesterday's final SatEvo prediction, this was running 11 seconds
late at the epoch of the final elset:
C 2365 Soyuz r 6.0 2.0 0.0 5.0 d 157 x 113 km
1 25890U 99044B 99233.94585365 .21439900 64124-5 12928-3 0 245
2 25890 67.0920 212.2045 0033060 89.4346 271.0906 16.51673239 527
I think it survived further beyond the perigee on this orbit, perhaps to
re-enter near the following southbound equator crossing over the mid-
Indian Ocean. It could have been beginning its re-entry plunge as it
swept over N Scandinavia between 23:06 (N of Trondeim, Norway) and 23:08
(E of Helsinki, Finland). I estimate decay at August 21 23:25 UTC near
the equator at 70.9 deg E longitude.
Alan
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