Updated TiPS TLE

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Craig Cholar wrote:

>Here's an elset for the TiPS tether that's much more accurate than
>the old one dated 97067 in the Molczan file.

Not for long.  :-)

>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

This elset has a crazy negative drag term (to compensate for a
much too large mean motion?).  But I doubt that it can be accurate
for more than a few days.

>The other
>elements I had found were late anywhere from 15 seconds to over a
>minute.

I have accurate observations from Russell Eberst and David Brierley
on 4 nights from April 7 to 17 and the 97067 elset was in error
by only 2 seconds (after 40 days).  The drag term on the tether
seems to be amazingly stable.

Here is an elset for the next 40 days.  :-)

TiPS          
1 23937U 96029  F 97107.40770066 0.00000285  00000-0  35692-3 0    00
2 23937  63.4304  94.1625 0024001   0.1002 359.8998 13.63930668    09

Mike McCants

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