Current STS-72 TLEs, KEPs and State Vector <Set 39, Rev 110>
David Cottle (dcottle@ozemail.com.au)
Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:30:50 -0800
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:28:08 -0800
>To: 2 STS TLE 2
>From: David Cottle <dcottle@ozemail.com.au>
>Subject: Current STS-72 TLEs, KEPs and State Vector <Set 39, Rev 110>
>
>STS-72
>1 23762U 96001A 96018.33683605 .00002489 00000-0 84204-5 0 395
>2 23762 28.4531 42.9605 0006270 346.8226 330.5601 15.88637742 1108
>
>Launch time for STS-72: 11 JAN 96 @ 09:41:00.086 UTC
>
>Earth-Fixed Greenwich State Vector :
>
>Vector format = 7
>Satellite Name: STS-72
>Catalog Number: 23762 96001A
>Epoch Date/Time: 96018.33683605300
> 01/18/1996 08:05:02.634 UTC
>ECI X: 6308.29590766376 km
> Y: 430.492477584794 km
> Z: -2157.3339999999 km
> Xdot: 0.42859454607980 km/s
> Ydot: 7.22564245424492 km/s
> Zdot: 2.70920800000000 km/s
>ndot/2 (drag): 0.00002488877 rev/day^2
>nddt/6: 0.00000E+00 rev/day^3
>Bstar: 8.42038E-06 1/Earth Radii
>Elset #: 39
>Rev @ Epoch: 110.88166918588
>
>Keplerian Elements (Amsat format):
>
>Satellite: STS-72
>Catalog number: 23762
>Epoch time: 96018.33683605
>Element set: 39
>Inclination: 28.4531 deg
>RA of node: 42.9605 deg
>Eccentricity: 0.0006270
>Arg of perigee: 346.8226 deg
>Mean anomaly: 330.5601 deg
>Mean motion: 15.88637742 rev/day
>Decay rate: 2.48888e-05 rev/day^2
>Epoch rev: 110
>Check sum: 312
>
>Drag Factor is 0.1
>
>SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITAL DATA:
>
>These 2-line elements have been generated using Ken Ernandes' program
>VEC2TLE using real time state vector data supplied by DOD C-Band Radar
>Network courtesy Dave Simonson. Note that the epoch of the 2-line
>elements is the same as the state vector time.
>
>Occasionally these elements are derived from the Goddard Space Flight Center
>(GSFC) NASA Orbital Information Group (OIG), using Curtis Haases' program
>VEC2VIF that formats the OIG vectors for use by VEC2TLE.
>
>The source of the data can be confirmed by the data format of the vector ;
>EFG, ft, ft/s = DOD C-Band Radar Network
>ECI, km, km/s = NASA OIG RAID RBBS
>ECI M50, ft, ft/s = Rockwell Mission Support Room
>
>Drag and B-Star parameters are internally calculated by VEC2TLE using
>the drag factor. Rev numbers use NASA orbit numbering convention.
>
> Dave Cottle
>
>
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David Cottle
IDB Communications.
Sydney, Australia.
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