25381/98-40C -- missed it!
Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 06:25:04 -0400
Well, rats! I saw TRMM just a couple of minutes before the Molniya
3-49 platform (25381, 98-40C) predicted time, but TRMM is big and
the phase was good, whereas the platform is little and its phase was
so-so at best. Sigh. Well, maybe the next one.... This one won't
last long with perigee of 139 km and apogee of 192 km!
SL-6 PLAT
1 25381U 98040C 98193.25121923 .13591619 84561-5 37473-3 0 559
2 25381 62.7759 196.8016 0040838 126.4271 234.1185 16.40015283 1807
For the freshest elsets... I'm trying to maintain daily (sometime
in the first six hours of the day UTC) at least an interim substitute
for Alan Pickup's select.tle file. It's at:
http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/selectec.txt
Mike McCants is still continuing to update and publish daily, at
about 20:00 or 21:00 UTC (as long as the scripts work, I guess) his
recent.tle file (of the most recently launched objects):
http://www.fc.net/~mikem/recent.html
http://www.fc.net/~mikem/mikem/recent.zip
http://www.fc.net/~mikem/ftp/recent.zip
ftp://ftp.fc.net/pub/users/mikem/recent.zip
Okay, now I'd better get some sleep!
Ed Cannon -- ecannon@mail.utexas.edu -- Austin, Texas, USA