Decay watch: February 5
Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:51:58 +0000
The current SpaceCom decay notices are:
Object Notice issued Predicted decay
UTC UTC
#23529 = Intelsat 705 Centaur r Feb 5 11:28 Feb 6 11:12 +-14h
#22584 = GPS 2-19 r2 Feb 4 06:09 Feb 11 05:45 +-4d
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The latest elset for the Centaur is:
Intelsat 705 Centaur r 617 x 119 km
1 23529U 95013B 99036.90702257 .35660113 -84867-5 99969-3 0 583
2 23529 26.5657 180.7645 0369160 289.9100 66.2283 15.66891693 62109
This is only 12 seconds late against the prediction I posted here
yesterday. My new prediction is for decay at February 6.59 (14:04 UTC
+-3h). This is near 20 deg S, 143 deg E (Queensland, Australia) on the
approach towards a northbound equator crossing at 14:16 UTC near 174 deg
W.
New prediction:
Intelsat 705 Centaur r 568 x 118 km
1 23529U 95013B 99037.03410025 .36836555 12428+0 94641-3 0 90581
2 23529 26.5643 179.8251 0334236 291.4855 64.9836 15.75615264 62126
Intelsat 705 Centaur r 481 x 117 km
1 23529U 95013B 99037.22330434 .46713882 24341+0 99008-3 0 90584
2 23529 26.5615 178.4021 0272827 293.8718 63.2930 15.91214660 62159
Intelsat 705 Centaur r 366 x 114 km
1 23529U 95013B 99037.41041428 .71287099 82209+0 10927-2 0 90580
2 23529 26.5577 176.9585 0190397 296.2931 61.7634 16.12387321 62185
Intelsat 705 Centaur r 313 x 113 km
1 23529U 95013B 99037.47217955 .93029413 17117+1 11730-2 0 90584
2 23529 26.5562 176.4709 0152063 297.1109 61.3463 16.22366555 62191
Intelsat 705 Centaur r 238 x 110 km
1 23529U 95013B 99037.53352298 1.58571202 72148+1 13720-2 0 90587
2 23529 26.5541 175.9785 0097599 297.9369 61.0785 16.36800454 62206
Alan
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