Updated TiPS TLE

3432P@VM1.CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL
Thu, 1 May 97 00:53:17 PDT

Here's an elset for the TiPS tether that's much more accurate than
the old one dated 97067 in the Molczan file.  Wednesday evening I
tested the accuracy of the various TiPS elements I had found, and
the most accurate was the one obtained from:

http://hyperspace.nrl.navy.mil/TiPS/latest_tips.els

I've modified the elements to use a NORAD designation of 23937, and
have added checksums.  For some reason, the published elements at the
URL above use 00006 for the designator, and lack the checksums.
Without the checksums, I couldn't get Skymap to use the elements.

TiPS             3.5  0.0  0.0  5.6 d
1 23937U 00000A   97119.38194444 -.00000634  00000 0  -7925-2 0 00000
2 23937  63.4285  62.4140 0030422 357.0179 118.6096 13.63946621 41203

Using the above elset the tether was exactly on track, and only
2 seconds earlier than the time predicted by Skymap.  The other
elements I had found were late anywhere from 15 seconds to over a
minute.

 Craig Cholar    3432P@VM1.CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL
 Marina, California
 36 41 04 N,  121 48 04 W     (+36.6860, -121.8054)      UTC -7