Starliner CST-100 OFT 2 estimated elset

From: Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 12:07:06 +0200
If weather cooperations and Nauka doesn't do anything odd again, Boeing Space
will launch Orbital Flight Test 2 of the CST-100 Starliner, an uncrewed mission
to the ISS. Launch is at 17:20 UT from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral.

This is an estimated elset for the first (suborbital) part of the trajectory:

CST-100 STARLINER                  for launch at 3 Aug 2021  17:20:00
1 70000U 21999A   21215.72222223  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    03
2 70000 051.6100 108.0733 0083547 058.9095 310.7056 16.54638603    01


Map:
https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/1422495165768421376?s=20

Observers in the Near/Middle East (e.g. Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Saoudi-Arabia)
might be able to observe the Centaur venting fuel some 26-30 minutes after
launch. the Centaur upper stage will reenter southwest of Australia around 18:15 UT.

South European observers might be able to observe Starliner on the second
revolution, but it will be late and at higher altitude than the elset above
implies, as it will have manoeuvered into a higher, proper orbit by then.

- Marco


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