Re: AMPTE decayed ? / Old elements

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At 19:28 19-02-96 +0100, you wrote:
>A friend of mine is working on data obtained by the IRM-1 satellite, which
>was part of the AMPTE-project. IRM-1 was built at our institute (MPE) and
>she told me IRM-1 had burnt up in the atmosphere. But in the last Satellite
>Situation Report I found this entry:
>
>15200 84-088B  IRM 1 (AMPTE)         FRG  2653.1  27.0 13808   402
>
>The original orbit was one with an apogee of 120000 km and apogee of 560
>km.
>
>I intend to ask one of the people here who was involved in the AMPTE-project 
>whether it has decayed or not (as soon as the holidays are over), since I


I cannot believe that this object is still in orbit.  Due to several
perturbations it is most likely that this satellite, which is(or was) in an
unstable orbit, has decayed.  The people who compiled the RAE table believed
that this object would stay in orbit for about 3 1/4 year, so it should have
decayed around 1987 Nov.

Tristan Cools
tcools@nic.INbe.net

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