RE: glitches in Mir elsets

jhunt@Radix.Net
Thu, 9 Jul 98 20:39:59

--- On Thu, 9 Jul 1998 09:06:51 -0400 (EDT)  Walter Nissen 
<dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu> wrote:

>In recent elsets from Mir, there are glitches in ndot2, see elset #619 
>below, and MM, see also elset #615 below.  Has anyone checked to see if 
>these could possibly be due to actual spacecraft activity?  Or are they 
>meaningless glitches in the data? 

According to reports in the last couple of weeks, the planned lowering 
of Mir's orbit (over the next 6 months) using the Progress M-39 by the 
end of June 98 has been delayed due to the next launch of Progress M-40 
moving from August to Sept 98. I suspect there are no plans to boost the 
orbit. Glitches, I suspect.

Jeff Hunt <jhunt@radix.net>
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/mir.html