In a message dated 01/05/2000 11:02:01 AM EDT, light@argoscomp.com writes: > The latest elements for TiPS, recently obtained from: > > http://hyperspace.nrl.navy.mil/TiPS/latest_tips.els > > has an apparent Y2K-ism. Specifically, the element set was: > > 1 00006U 00000 A 90004.44444444 0.00001498 00000 0 17403-2 0 0000 > 2 00006 63.4301 343.5847 0122632 359.4408 122.0316 13.6549217913870 > > The correct elements should be, I believe: > > TiPS > 1 23937U 96029F 00004.44444444 0.00001498 00000 0 17403-2 0 00007 > 2 23937 63.4301 343.5847 0122632 359.4408 122.0316 13.65492179138707 From NRL at 16:50 UTC today: TiPS 1 00006U 00000C 00004.44444444 0.00001494 00000 0 17348-2 0 0000 2 00006 63.4301 343.1654 0122633 359.4418 122.0305 13.6549218813870 This morning I e-mailed my NRL/TiPS point of contact noting the Y2K bug and requested the trailing zero in lines 1 and 2. Element Manager requires that the checksum be present or the TLE is ignored. Pretty good response from NRL. Now if we could just get the STEX/ATEX elsets back. :-) Cheers Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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