Just noticed from Alan Pickup's iridium elsets that he kindly arranged to mail by script, that the orbit of Iridium 9 ( 24838 ) had been lowered by 15Km. A query to OIG for the last 5 TLE's showed that the mean motion and argument of perigee has been changing orbit by orbit. Tony Beresford Iridium 9 4.0 1.8 0.0 6.0 d 13 750 x 746 km 1 24838U 97030C 00281.34901925 .00003209 00000-0 95008-3 0 4183 2 24838 86.4574 17.9619 0003121 72.1820 287.9717 14.43150567173100 Iridium 9 4.0 1.8 0.0 6.0 d 13 751 x 746 km 1 24838U 97030C 00283.77580991 .00002196 00000-0 64822-3 0 4193 2 24838 86.4580 16.9504 0003256 67.2360 292.9171 14.43160005173458 IRIDIUM 09 1 24838U 97030C 00285.32138947 .01745213 00000-0 47211+0 0 4213 2 24838 86.4605 16.3080 0003348 93.1673 12.2071 14.44282754173679 IRIDIUM 09 1 24838U 97030C 00285.50894959 .02390527 00000-0 62443+0 0 4225 2 24838 86.4145 16.1650 0003228 330.2355 30.1712 14.45370359173703 IRIDIUM 09 1 24838U 97030C 00285.57810700 .02394449 00000-0 67572+0 0 4229 2 24838 86.4666 16.2094 0002696 183.5670 176.6106 14.45802780173768 IRIDIUM 09 1 24838U 97030C 00285.71651524 .03443660 00000-0 86910+0 0 4231 2 24838 86.4647 16.1414 0003659 48.7732 311.5788 14.46833741173738 Iridium 9 4.0 1.8 0.0 6.0 d 13 737 x 733 km 1 24838U 97030C 00285.78562706 .03419460 00000-0 85610+0 0 4249 2 24838 86.4572 16.1078 0003161 59.0393 301.1139 14.47244440173746 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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