Globalstar and Iridium Elsets

Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:35:28 -0700

Iridium, Delta, 16 Feb 98, 14:09:20 UT
1 94444U 980XX A  98047.90131145  .00000560  00000-0  68743+0 0    16
2 94444  86.5716  60.4669 0008954 257.6118 102.2762 14.78767392    45

I sure hope they launch soon!

Reference the last Globalstar elset I posted, I just compared it to an early
real elset.  From Melbourne, Australia, my elset was about 7 seconds early
(I knew it was about five when posted) and 0.3 degree high.  Got to give
credit for that accuracy to Randy Stein (?) who posted the orbital data.

Ron Lee