--- Art Glick <omb00900@mail.wvnet.edu> wrote: > How is it that there's a rocket sitting where the 'B' object of this > triangle should be? Don't these sats require occasional adjustments to > their orbits to maintain spacing and their function? Why would they (or > could they) maintain station keeping on a rocket? If the rocket has a similar orbit, it can fly by the noss clusters, and for a period of time pretend to be part of the cluster. The older generation has three satellites, while the newest generation has 2 satellites. Old generation NOSS 2-1 (E) 1 20642U 90050E 04186.14798935 0.00000010 00000-0 12107-4 0 02 2 20642 63.4130 101.8172 0373000 356.5129 3.4871 13.40454099 09 NOSS 2-1 (C) 1 20691U 90050C 04186.14801431 0.00000010 00000-0 11987-4 0 07 2 20691 63.4170 102.4934 0377500 1.0732 358.9268 13.40453842 04 NOSS 2-1 (D) 1 20692U 90050D 04186.14809030 0.00000010 00000-0 12027-4 0 07 2 20692 63.4120 102.2424 0376000 1.7879 358.2121 13.40453794 02 NOSS 2-2 (C) 1 21799U 91076C 04159.91786143 0.00000020 00000-0 26465-4 0 01 2 21799 63.4190 56.3891 0330000 1.1993 358.8006 13.40454867 06 NOSS 2-2 (D) 1 21808U 91076D 04159.91799012 0.00000010 00000-0 13155-4 0 02 2 21808 63.4160 56.6420 0333000 0.9637 359.0363 13.40455073 09 NOSS 2-2 (E) 1 21809U 91076E 04159.91787730 0.00000020 00000-0 26823-4 0 04 2 21809 63.4180 56.1204 0323000 354.5800 5.4199 13.40454705 06 NOSS 2-3 (D) 1 23862U 96029D 04187.03837552 0.00000010 00000-0 16400-4 0 09 2 23862 63.4190 260.7505 0189000 0.3547 359.6453 13.40454520 01 NOSS 2-3 (C) 1 23908U 96029C 04187.03839864 0.00000010 00000-0 16436-4 0 07 2 23908 63.4240 260.6671 0187000 356.9464 3.0536 13.40454814 05 NOSS 2-3 (E) 1 23936U 96029E 04187.03845441 0.00000010 00000-0 16418-4 0 06 2 23936 63.4260 260.8879 0188000 0.4687 359.5312 13.40455205 05 New Generation USA 160 1 26905U 01040A 04184.93330273 0.00000040 00000-0 72370-4 0 04 2 26905 63.4310 203.5185 0046500 175.1420 184.8580 13.40464341 04 USA 160 (C) 1 26907U 01040C 04185.08242401 0.00000020 00000-0 36195-4 0 01 2 26907 63.4310 202.9412 0045500 176.8041 183.1959 13.40463768 02 NOSS 3-2 (A) 1 28095U 03054A 04185.93710788 0.00000020 00000-0 35126-4 0 03 2 28095 63.4330 117.8708 0111000 178.7242 181.2758 13.40458854 05 NOSS 3-2 (C) 1 28097U 03054C 04185.93719399 0.00000020 00000-0 35115-4 0 00 2 28097 63.4350 118.0655 0111500 178.9434 181.0566 13.40458470 02 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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