Fw: USA 116 and 129 elements updated

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:11:04 +0200

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bjoern Gimle <b_gimle@algonet.se>
To: Ted Molczan <molczan@home.com>
Date: den 7 juli 1999 18:06
Subject: Re: USA 116 and 129 elements updated


>According to Mike's classfd.tle up to July 02, Pierre's improved elset
>and Rob's COLA, USA 129 was maneuvred around
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>6/17/1999 20:34:45.4 24680 USA 129         15.0  3.0    10.3    86.1 -18.09
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>This is close to perigee (as expected) near northern apex
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>The orbit changed from
>USA 129                                          963 x 281
>1 24680U 96072  A 99168.84198665  .00028000  00000-0  36155-3 0    11
>2 24680  97.9090 231.2495 0486582  88.8339 276.8557 14.82344011   305
>to
>USA 129                                          976 x 280
>1 24680U 96072  A 99168.84194368  .00025244  00000-0  32133-3 0  3424
>2 24680  97.8440 231.2909 0496632  90.3696 275.4417 14.80308339 -2667
>
>USA 116 was 50 deg. further east, and passed 159 and 256 minutes
>(64 degrees) later. Since USA 116's MM was 14.811 the difference
>will decrease by 0.8 min (0.2 deg.)/day initially. Because of it's
>higher perigee and lower ndot2, this will shrink to zero (MMs equal)
>after about 30 days, and by mid/end August another reboost may be due,
>unless both are boosted to MM near 14.72.
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