Molniya decay
Bjorn Gimle (bjorn@tt-tech.se)
Fri, 17 Nov 95 10:41:15 MET
The decay of Molniya #12066 is still accelerating quite slowly.
I expect decay on Saturday evening UT, possibly visible from western US
on its last orbit, but the decay is most likely to occur near
the perigee at 62 deg. S ?
I am using a considerably improved numerical extrapolation, not
integration. I don't know its accuracy for elliptic orbits, and
will try to fit NPOE parameters to several elsets, when I have
Friday's elsets for #12066.
Element set number = 5
1 12066U 80092A 95320.52366060 .50178716 13166-4 78414-3 0 3493
2 12066 62.2621 35.7644 1958004 269.0288 68.7286 12.05366539 19284
Element set number = 3
1 12066U 80092A 95320.44055109 .54045411 12839-4 75055-3 0 3485
2 12066 62.2605 35.9417 2003278 269.0113 69.4562 11.95877642 19272
Element set number = 1
1 12066U 80092A 95320.27152076 .43604535 12224-4 85362-3 0 3472
2 12066 62.2800 36.2941 2081551 268.7860 67.7324 11.76810637 19255
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