Shuttle and ISS proximity after undocking

From: Ted Molczan (molczan@rogers.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 01:05:29 EDT

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    This is an update of the following message:

http://satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2002/0107.html

NASA has revised its predicted Shuttle and ISS elements. The following are applicable following the separation burn on 2002 Oct 16
at 14:46 UTC:

1 27537U 02047A   02289.66255790  .00071000  00000-0  10050-3 0  9052
2 27537  51.6305 162.8462 0021312   1.3906 358.7305 15.59437734  1395

1 25544U 98067A   02289.66257588  .00020000  00000-0  26000-3 0  9058
2 25544  51.6305 162.8463 0019792   6.5221 353.6188 15.58880377 23029

The following table states the number of seconds of time by which ISS would trail Shuttle:

2002 Oct 16  17:56 UTC  Western Europe       4 s
2002 Oct 17  00:09 UTC  Eastern N. America  13 s

The separation would not be much greater on subsequent N. American passes.

Observers should use the above elements to compute ephemerides for their location.

Further revisions of the elements are likely; I will post updates.

Ted Molczan


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