Derived CONTOUR TLE

From: Gene Heyler (heylega1@comcast.net)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 21:46:06 EDT

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    I have been able to derive the nominal TLE
for first few days of CONTOUR's Earth orbital phase. Steps were:

1. Picked 1st cartesian point from JPL SPICE file after 3rd stg
burnout(near ascending node)
2. Made approximate TLE using VEC2TLE
3. Tweeked elements (mean motion and ecc) to get best fit to trajectory
over the subsequent four days

Launch window opens at 6:56:14 UT 1-July-2002.
Orbit epoch below is 8:00:49 UT 1-July-2002, near 1st ascending node.

1 99999U           2182.33390046  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    10
2 99999  29.6995 194.2082 8942378 335.3240   0.25     0.57887000   12


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G Heyler
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Laurel, MD USA

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