FW: STS-72 Rev 3 Orbital Data
Jeff Hunt (jhunt@eagle1.eaglenet.com)
Thu, 11 Jan 96 15:58:07 EST
Forwarded from Ken Ernandes. Jeff Hunt<jhunt@eagle1.eaglenet.com>
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S T S - 7 2 O R B I T A L D A T A
Below is the rev 3 Earth-Fixed Greenwich (EFG), state vector for
STS-72. This vector data comes from NASA GSFC and is provided
courtesy of the DOD C-Band Radar Network.
Vector format = 117
Satellite Name: STS-72
Catalog Number: 23762 96001A
Epoch Date/Time: 96011.54980208300
01/11/1996 13:11:42.899 UTC
EFG E: 18190755.8000000 ft
F: -12792817.400000 ft
G: -62618.400000000 ft
Edot: 12050.7318099999 ft/s
Fdot: 16430.8677270000 ft/s
Gdot: -11924.447152999 ft/s
ndot/2 (drag): 0.00018262816 rev/day^2
nddt/6: 1.40565E-09 rev/day^3
Bstar: 1.23340E-05 1/Earth Radii
Elset #: 2
Rev @ Epoch: 3.49537158400
Launch was 11-JAN-96 / 09:41:00.086 UTC
The following Keplerian elements were computed by VEC2TLE from this
vector using a 0.1 drag multiplier:
STS-72
1 23762U 96001A 96011.54980208 .00018263 14056-8 12334-4 0 25
2 23762 28.4456 92.8486 0209086 53.8763 124.4554 15.83397765 37
Satellite: STS-72
Catalog number: 23762
Epoch time: 96011.54980208
Element set: 2
Inclination: 28.4456 deg
RA of node: 92.8486 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0209086
Arg of perigee: 53.8763 deg
Mean anomaly: 124.4554 deg
Mean motion: 15.83397765 rev/day
Decay rate: 1.82628e-04 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 3
Check sum: 324
The next release of VEC2TLE will provide a feature to automatically
update your TLE or AMSAT Keplerian element file(s).
VEC2TLE may be downloaded from:
ftp.amsat.org /amsat/software/PC/util
Ken Ernandes
n2wwd@amsat.org
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