Derek Breit, Scott Campbell, Russell Eberst, Kevin Fetter, Marco Langbroek, Jim Nix, Alberto Rango, Greg Roberts, Ian Roberts, Peter Wakelin, Mike Waterman, Brad Young, and I, contributed observations used to determine one or more of the following element sets. Greg's obs of Aug 24 and Peter's of Aug 29, confirm that Mentor 2 is now synchronous near 14.9 W. Mentor 2 35659 X 35919 km 1 25336U 98029A 10241.13086426 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 08 2 25336 8.2257 9.6634 0030895 247.9121 111.8500 1.00267056 07 Arc 20100824.72-0829.99 WRMS resid 0.006 totl 0.003 xtrk I am not confident of the mean motion of 04034A. SDS 3-3 850 X 39500 km 1 28384U 04034A 10242.83546596 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 28384 63.9612 288.9179 7277953 272.5934 13.9558 2.00637376 05 Arc 20100829.95-0830.87 WRMS resid 0.006 totl 0.001 xtrk Helios 2B 676 X 680 km 1 36124U 09073A 10243.03732194 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 07 2 36124 98.1220 177.8599 0003000 55.9259 304.2228 14.63858618 05 Arc 20100827.1-0831.06 WRMS resid 0.030 totl 0.014 xtrk Helios 2B r 625 X 661 km 1 36125U 09073B 10243.05826529 .00000079 00000-0 11735-4 0 03 2 36125 98.0576 181.1081 0025698 319.0614 40.8665 14.74857233 01 Arc 20100407.15-0830.07 WRMS resid 0.032 totl 0.019 xtrk OTV-1 433 X 444 km 1 36514U 10015A 10243.40966539 -.00000409 00000-0 -89038-5 0 09 2 36514 39.9880 276.3329 0007617 64.0415 296.1177 15.43367470 04 Arc 20100828.39-0831.43 WRMS resid 0.038 totl 0.008 xtrk AEHF 1 446 X 49975 km 1 36868U 10039A 10242.84673563 .00000013 00000-0 96487-4 0 00 2 36868 21.6235 306.5333 7839810 187.2528 143.3783 1.54669611 02 Arc 20100829.85-0830.9 WRMS resid 0.011 totl 0.010 xtrk Additional manoeuvres of AEHF 1 can be expected in the coming days, which are intended to raise its perigee to 950 km. Three more, of about the same magnitude as Sunday's, would accomplish that. Observers should not be surprised to find it running at least several minutes late, and a bit off track. AEHF 1 r 227 X 50126 km 1 36869U 10039B 10242.92891409 .00012605 00000-0 40065-2 0 00 2 36869 21.6736 308.7791 7906718 185.0206 153.8521 1.54918825 02 Arc 20100826.96-0831.23 WRMS resid 0.018 totl 0.013 xtrk Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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