Re: Objects from Cosmos 2361 launch

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 07:38:22 +0100

Regarding the payload from the 98- 54 launch, Phillip Clark
<psclark@dircon.co.uk> writes
>GSFC logs this as Molniya-1 91.   The argument of perigee (~280 deg) 
>points to a Molniya launch rather than an Oko early warning satellite 
>(AoP ~320 deg) in the Cosmos series.

Yes, and I had it identified initially as "Molniya ?" in my select.tle
file. Then the draft Jonathan's Space Report logged it as Cosmos 2361
and the following announcement appeared from WDC-A. Throughout this
time, GSFC were calling this "UNK". 

<begin quote>
COSPAR/ISES
               WORLD WARNING AGENCY FOR SATELLITES
             WORLD DATA CENTER-A FOR R & S, NASA/GSFC
            CODE 633, GREENBELT, MARYLAND, 20771. USA


SPACEWARN 12964

                     COSPAR/WWAS     USSPACECOM NUMBER  
SPACECRAFT         INTERNATIONAL ID   (CATALOG NUMBER)   LAUNCH DATE,UT

COSMOS 2361            1998-054A           25485      28 SEPTEMBER 1998


DR. JOSEPH H. KING, DIRECTOR, WDC-A-R&S. 
[PH: (301) 286 7355. 
E-MAIL: KING@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
29 SEPTEMBER 1998, 13:25 UT] 
<end quote>

No doubt, all will become clearer...

Alan
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