Congratulations to Daniel Deak and his friend on spotting #26085, the Globalstar Delta 2 rocket at 08:21 UTC, particularly when it was (indeed) running well ahead of my prediction. In fact, the latest elset... Gbstr 63 Del r 7.0 2.0 0.0 5.5 d 15 202 x 134 km 1 26085U 00008E 00135.51828486 .15732780 12693-4 36030-3 0 2288 2 26085 49.5217 218.4543 0052008 309.5812 50.0935 16.39061603 14744 ... has it 109 sec early against the prediction, and the decay is certain to be much earlier than I estimated. This means that Dan's obs was even closer to decay than he thought, but it also means that any chance of seeing it again tomorrow is gone. SpaceCom's current prediction is for decay while northbound at May 14 19:41 +-4h near 20.1 S, 31.4 E, which is over E Zimbabwe, Africa. However, I guesstimate that this will decay a little more than one orbit later in the vicinity of a northbound equator crossing near 25.7 E at May 14 21:11 +-2h. SatEvo predicted elsets to decay: Gbstr 63 Del r 7.0 2.0 0.0 5.5 d 15 187 x 129 km 1 26085U 00008E 00135.64005120 .18931259 17827+0 28584-3 0 92282 2 26085 49.5206 217.7333 0043915 310.1960 49.4205 16.43036060 14768 Gbstr 63 Del r 7.0 2.0 0.0 5.5 d 15 177 x 126 km 1 26085U 00008E 00135.70082459 .22673621 23433+0 26458-3 0 92288 2 26085 49.5199 217.3718 0038850 310.5043 49.1579 16.45553577 14771 Gbstr 63 Del r 7.0 2.0 0.0 5.5 d 15 165 x 122 km 1 26085U 00008E 00135.76149703 .26404272 74542-1 22609-3 0 92281 2 26085 49.5191 217.0094 0033106 310.8133 48.9001 16.48554528 14787 Gbstr 63 Del r 7.0 2.0 0.0 5.5 d 15 151 x 117 km 1 26085U 00008E 00135.82205108 .35076907 76192+0 20726-3 0 92289 2 26085 49.5182 216.6461 0026275 311.1231 48.6504 16.52169499 14792 Gbstr 63 Del r 7.0 2.0 0.0 5.5 d 15 130 x 109 km 1 26085U 00008E 00135.88244867 .66611055 54835+1 22125-3 0 92289 2 26085 49.5168 216.2815 0016460 311.4341 48.4244 16.57694162 14801 Alan -- Alan Pickup | COSPAR 2707: 55d53m48.7s N 3d11m51.2s W 156m asl Edinburgh | Tel: +44 (0)131 477 9144 Fax: +44 (0)870 0520750 Scotland | SatEvo page: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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