Decay preds: TSS & Interbol 1 rocket

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 16 Mar 1996 21:24:16 +0000

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The most recent element I have for the TSS/tether is:
TSS
1 23805U 96012B   96075.52119295  .01400543  87373-3  41951-2 0   718
2 23805  28.4725 127.9197 0036766  40.5185 319.8137 15.90106107  3426

which leads my SatEvo program to predict its decay at about March 20.1

SatEvo also provides the following orbit evolution, but note that it
doesn't (yet, at least) provide a BSTAR value so beware before you feed
these into an SGP4 propagation model..

TSS
1 23805U 96012B   96077.02509995  .01983851  18792-3  00000-0 0 90719
2 23805  28.4716 116.6718 0030225  58.8394 301.4562 15.95087627  3663
TSS
1 23805U 96012B   96078.02465729  .02794082  39021-3  00000-0 0 90711
2 23805  28.4707 109.1428 0024947  71.1030 289.1671 15.99765352  3820
TSS
1 23805U 96012B   96079.02062156  .04780073  11924-2  00000-0 0 90717
2 23805  28.4694 101.5779 0018226  83.4254 276.7819 16.06928100  3981
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Interbol 1 Rocket (95039B = #23633) is also nearing its demise - I'm
currently showing decay at about April 7.

Alan
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