At 20:22 19/06/01 , Mir16609@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 6/19/01 4:23:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >ecannon@mail.utexas.edu writes: > >> ICO F2 >> 1 26857U 01026A 01170.19173387 -.00000260 37937-6 00000+0 0 12 >> 2 26857 44.5624 225.3102 4313676 67.6480 332.0043 7.01759206 03 >> ATLAS 2ASCENTAUR R/B >> 1 26858U 01026B 01170.10956873 .00000027 00000-0 00000+0 0 18 >> 2 26858 44.8779 225.2562 0085075 79.7875 282.5513 4.15910603 07 > >How does a R/B get a lower mean motion than the payload? > >Cheers, >Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL Well the query on OIG at 11:20UT (07:20 EDT) showed ICO F2 1 26857U 01026A 01170.38270219 .00000027 00000-0 00000+0 0 54 2 26857 44.9208 226.1963 0006067 271.3080 137.2995 4.10200612 08 ATLAS 2ASCENTAUR R/B 1 26858U 01026B 01170.38901453 .00000027 00000-0 00000+0 0 34 2 26858 44.8708 225.1951 0086765 79.5151 341.3326 4.15954521 05 and incidentally that OIG's clock was about 3 minutes fast. I would imagine that the initial elements were before the final burn of the Centaur for the circular 10,600Km orbit. This is the intended orbit of these satellites. I suspect moderately easy telescopic objects. They are stated to be modified versions of the boeing 600 series satellite. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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