Titan 4 elsets

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 24 May 1999 21:30:02 +0100

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Within the past hour, OIG has posted elsets for what I take to be the
decaying Titan 4B from Saturday's launch of a classified sat for the
NRO. No confirmation of the name from OIG (where all new objects are
"UNK" these days) or from the WDA-A, so the following is my guess...

USA 144 Titan 4 r ?                              297 x 203 km
1 25745U 99028B   99144.30720100  .00701775  79230-5  54019-3 0    10
2 25745  63.3944  95.8512 0070863 171.1785 189.0195 16.08930044    06
USA 144 Titan 4 r ?                              294 x 201 km
1 25745U 99028B   99144.74219679  .00843989  79343-5  61589-3 0    22
2 25745  63.3904  94.1494 0069604 171.3855 189.2671 16.09796962    72

My initial calculation is for its decay about June 2.

Obviously, nothing on the "A" object.

Alan
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