Cosmos 2361 launched

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:30:29 +0000

Russia has launched Cosmos 2361 which appears to be another EORSAT Naval
recon satellite. Its SL-11 (=Tsyklon-2) rocket is also in orbit. Expect
the Cosmos to be manoeuvred and the rocket to decay quickly. The
following elsets are the only ones published so far - the line zero
dimension/mag data are my uncertain guesses.

Cosmos 2361      8.0  3.0  0.0  3.5 d   20       442 x 147 km
1 26040U 99072A   99360.38958623 -.00002149  67960-5  00000-0 0    14
2 26040  64.9854 249.1299 0221153  64.8219 298.3749 15.92799728    12
Cosmos 2361 r    2.5  2.0  0.0  6.0 d    5       399 x 121 km
1 26041U 99072B   99360.38928449 -.00002210  69867-5  00000-0 0    15
2 26041  64.9972 249.3974 0209602  58.1651 305.5009 16.05225815    13

They enter eclipse near northern apex at about 16:30 local time and
emerge from eclipse while southbound near 56 degrees south latitude at
01:30 local time.

With my Best Wishes for Christmas, the Holidays and Y2K :)

Alan
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