PANSAT

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For those of you in the right locations, with good equipment...  
Dave Ransom says, in this file:

  ftp://tie.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/dransom/current.data/flash.txt 

that the Space Shuttle crew have deployed a small (about 48 cm, 
19 inch) satellite, PANSAT ("Petite Amateur Naval SATellite") 
that will not be retrieved.  Maybe the 22520 elset below, from 
Alan Pickup's select.tle, is for PANSAT?  I can't get OIG's Web 
site to respond right now.

STS-95                                           561 x 552 km
1 25519U 98064A   98303.58333333  .00000756  00000-0  41844-4 0    54
2 25519  28.4662 153.2135 0006548  42.1940 294.1673 15.03435044   118
UNK                                              561 x 551 km
1 25520U 98064B   98303.91962328  .00707800  00000-0  47485-1 0    75
2 25520  28.4673 151.0093 0007531  47.5193 312.6033 15.03605138   167

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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