RE: The faint unid video = what I thought might be OTV 5

From: Ted Molczan via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 21:58:27 -0400
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


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