Objects from Nadezhda launch

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:21:43 +0000

Here (from my current select.tle file) are elsets for the objects from
today's launch of Nadezhda and Astrid 2 by a Cosmos 3M rocket. The
identifications are yet to be confirmed by OIG/USSPACECOM who have them
all as "UNK" at present; I assume also that #25568 is 98- 73 B and
#25569 is 98- 73 C.

Nadezhda ?                                       1014 x 978 km
1 25567U 98073A   98344.77603243  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    38
2 25567  82.9464 286.2407 0023919 272.7785  87.1119 13.71063368    28
Astrid 2 ?                                       1014 x 977 km
1 25568U 00000    98344.70304476  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    20
2 25568  82.9477 286.2999 0025356 270.8015  89.0722 13.71259490    36
Nadezhda Cosmos r ?                              1003 x 977 km
1 25569U 00000    98344.70288050  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    20
2 25569  82.9446 286.3064 0017506 256.2776 103.6920 13.72781858    39

Alan
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