Decay watch: February 3

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SpaceCom has issued the following decay notices since my last update:

Object                            Notice issued    Predicted decay
                                       UTC              UTC

#23529 = Intelsat 705 Centaur r   Feb  2 10:05     Feb  6 08:47 +-2d
#23529 = Intelsat 705 Centaur r   Feb  3 14:08     Feb  6 08:03 +-2d

The latest elset is:

Intelsat 705 Centaur r                           1172 x 122 km
1 23529U 95013B   99034.53318172  .14319933 -84966-5  71275-3 0   408
2 23529  26.5768 196.9896 0747282 262.6197  88.8715 14.74439006 61741

My current prediction is for decay at February 6.65 (16:45 UTC +-15h).

The following predicted elsets are from a new version of SatEvo on which
I am still working:

Intelsat 705 Centaur r                           1088 x 122 km
1 23529U 95013B   99035.00501119  .15048549  10596-1  70022-3 0 90400
2 23529  26.5740 193.9273 0692024 267.7544  84.3119 14.87782159 61813
Intelsat 705 Centaur r                           984 x 120 km
1 23529U 95013B   99035.53877287  .17059009  14943-1  69846-3 0 90407
2 23529  26.5707 190.3854 0622683 273.6939  79.2115 15.04858107 61894
Intelsat 705 Centaur r                           882 x 119 km
1 23529U 95013B   99036.00059470  .19554725  21646-1  70169-3 0 90401
2 23529  26.5674 187.2444 0554624 278.9610  74.8046 15.21695598 61964

Alan
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