Re: Decay watch: Interbol/Magion rocket

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 25 Jul 1998 20:01:29 +0100

The current elset from OIG on this observable bright decayer is:

IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            198 x 157 km
1 24294U 96050D   98206.62476217  .04835231  87945-5  47600-3 0  8040
2 24294  62.7095  76.2793 0031753 254.9251 104.9063 16.35590657105986

This has it running 18 seconds early with respect to my previous
evolution.

My current analysis shows decay at July 26.36 (08:45 UTC +-4 h).

SatEvo predicted elsets:
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            192 x 154 km
1 24294U 96050D   98206.74694139  .06741632  30687-1  49177-3 0 98048
2 24294  62.7090  75.7717 0029013 254.9534 104.7253 16.37310280106008
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            181 x 150 km
1 24294U 96050D   98206.93001895  .09047675  53028-1  41649-3 0 98049
2 24294  62.7081  75.0089 0024336 254.9960 104.7345 16.40156933106031
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            167 x 143 km
1 24294U 96050D   98207.11272321  .13733538  13619+0  33664-3 0 98047
2 24294  62.7069  74.2439 0018527 255.0388 104.7561 16.44182779106062
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            160 x 139 km
1 24294U 96050D   98207.17351275  .16965024  21876+0  31442-3 0 98045
2 24294  62.7064  73.9882 0016137 255.0531 104.7682 16.46033111106072
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            152 x 135 km
1 24294U 96050D   98207.23422609  .22727723  41905+0  29725-3 0 98047
2 24294  62.7057  73.7322 0013329 255.0674 104.7850 16.48404456106083
IBol 2 Molniya r 2.0  0.0  0.0  3.9 v            141 x 128 km
1 24294U 96050D   98207.29483667  .36662306  15295+1  29472-3 0 98047
2 24294  62.7043  73.4755 0009750 255.0818 104.8102 16.51854283106091

I am trying to update the latest official elset for this in my
select.tle and dklist.tle files (available via my SatEvo WWW page) at
about 15 minutes past every hour.

Alan
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