Re: Russian launch

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 20:31:49 +0000

In message <199612111941.WAA04353@accessnet.ru>, VideoCosmos
<cosmos@space.accessnet.ru> writes
>A Russian Kosmos 2335 satellite was launched Dec.11
>at 12:00:00 UTC from Baykonur by 11K68 Tsiklon-2
>launch vehicle.

The latest OIG elsets for these are:
Cosmos 2335                                      415 x 404
1 24670U 96069A   96346.62060434 -.00000293  00000-0  00000-0 0    11
2 24670  64.9884 295.0001 0008544 218.7686 141.3277 15.52502487    11
Cosmos 2335 r                                    363 x 114
1 24671U 96069B   96346.67983123  .18286199  86332-5  29013-3 0    32
2 24671  65.0138 294.7643 0188102  50.4115 311.4012 16.13187500    22

If the latter is accurate then it may decay at about Dec 12.3.

Alan
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