Re: Mysterious ECS-1 (AYAME)) rocket?

JAY RESPLER (jrespler@superlink.net)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 04:11:30 -0400

Harro.Zimmer wrote:
> 
> Todays Satellite Catalog Action Report shows as a new SpaceCom registration
>          #25776 (UNK)    1979-009B
> 
> 1979-009A is the Japanese Experimental Communications Satellite - ECS 1 -
> or AYAME 1. In all earlier editions of the Satellite Catalogue I haven't seen
> a B - object. But in the " R.A.E. Earth Table of Earth Satellites 1957 - 1989"
> there is 1979-009B (rocket) with an epoch and the usual orbital informations.
> Within the changes over the past 20 years the "R.A.E rocket body" seems identical
> with SpaceCom's "new" object.
> Any clues or ideas ?

These last elements for A are 5.5 years old. I haven't compared them, but if 
the new elements are similar, that raises the question, is 25776 B, or recovered
A?

79009A
1 11261U 79009A   93364.99999999 -.00000068 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 05886
2 11261 004.8500 053.2620 1027781 214.1630 172.9940 01.09673722000011

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