I took a couple of rough points from Kevin's video, which yielded the following circular orbit approximation: 1 70000U 17267.38565972 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 08 2 70000 41.6231 352.8973 0001000 0.0000 82.0061 15.22879197 02 The orbit roughly correlates with the expected orbit of OTV 5, but it is about 7 deg from the expected RAAN. If the orbit is more eccentric than expected, then that could make it appear to be out of plane. The orbit is also similar to that of TecSar (08002A / 32476), which was last reported in spring 2016. It appears to be more than 10 deg from the expected RAAN. Searches of the above orbit should employ a wide FOV, and allow for at least a few minutes of prediction time uncertainty. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sun Sep 24 2017 - 20:59:09 UTC
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