Re: Decay watch: MSTI 2 & Zarya Proton rocket

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:56:54 +0000

The latest elsets from OIG for these two decayers are:

MSTI 2           1.0  0.0  0.0  8.3 d            215 x 211 km
1 23101U 94028A   98328.78763935  .01516144  22269-5  66954-3 0  9247
2 23101  97.0156 173.7093 0003443 216.9772 143.1445 16.22420433258504
Zarya Proton r                                   256 x 164 km
1 25545U 98067B   98328.84883525  .02470494  11970-4  50065-3 0   356
2 25545  51.6128 143.4618 0070074 103.5159 257.3874 16.23432617   747

With respect to the predictions I posted here two days ago on November
22, these show the objects running early by (only!) 0.13 second and 17
seconds respectively.


I now predict the decays for:

MSTI 2               November 28.8 +-0.8 day

Zarya Proton rocket  November 27.2 +-0.5 day


Fresh SatEvo-predicted elsets:

MSTI 2           1.0  0.0  0.0  8.3 d            214 x 209 km
1 23101U 94028A   98329.03429218  .01356460  10372-2  57143-3 0 99240
2 23101  97.0154 173.9768 0003335 215.9638 144.0137 16.23019816258545
MSTI 2           1.0  0.0  0.0  8.3 d            205 x 201 km
1 23101U 94028A   98330.01992256  .01763837  18354-2  57809-3 0 99244
2 23101  97.0143 175.0484 0002865 211.9037 148.0789 16.26057357258707


Zarya Proton r                                   252 x 163 km
1 25545U 98067B   98329.03341883  .02705619  29275-2  51908-3 0 90355
2 25545  51.6125 142.4415 0067193 104.2783 256.4689 16.24387422   778
Zarya Proton r                                   239 x 161 km
1 25545U 98067B   98329.52512032  .03255943  50121-2  52701-3 0 90352
2 25545  51.6117 139.7164 0058835 106.3147 254.3331 16.27295227   853
Zarya Proton r                                   222 x 158 km
1 25545U 98067B   98330.01584131  .04283553  97106-2  54318-3 0 90356
2 25545  51.6106 136.9840 0049094 108.3567 252.1779 16.30939475   931

Alan
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