Updated elements

From: Ted Molczan (ssl3molcz@rogers.com)
Date: Tue Jun 09 2009 - 20:27:33 UTC

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    Scott Campbell, Russell Eberst, Kevin Fetter, Peter Gertson, Pierre Neirinck,
    Steve Newcomb, Alberto Rango, Greg Roberts, and Peter Wakelin, Mike Waterman,
    and Brad Young, and I, contributed observations used to determine one or more of
    the following element sets.
    
    USA 129                                                  293 X 936 km
    1 24680U 96072A   09159.82267920  .00005589  00000-0  89482-4 0    09
    2 24680  97.8238 212.7732 0459508 109.2703 255.8800 14.83698707    07
    Arc 20090531.06-0608.83 WRMS resid 0.051 totl 0.015 xtrk
    
    DSP F19                                                614 X 34730 km
    1 25669U 99017A   09159.47163642  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    04
    2 25669  29.0955  48.9181 7092794 297.5655   8.9547  2.32822055    00
    Arc 20090521.23-0608.71 WRMS resid 0.005 totl 0.005 xtrk
    
    USA 186                                                 259 X 1007 km
    1 28888U 05042A   09159.80354127  .00007471  00000-0  71389-4 0    03
    2 28888  97.8829 222.8096 0533531 190.5577 168.4071 14.77833536    06
    Arc 20090601.1-0608.81 WRMS resid 0.023 totl 0.012 xtrk
    
    IGS-R2 r                                                 361 X 455 km
    1 30588U 07005C   09160.05904369  .00004291  00000-0  64710-4 0    09
    2 30588  97.4074 295.8187 0069755 316.2533  43.3204 15.51884583    06
    Arc 20090602.04-0609.07 WRMS resid 0.014 totl 0.010 xtrk
    
    USA 202                                              35735 X 35857 km
    1 33490U 09001A   09159.10444625  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    02
    2 33490   2.8520 340.4685 0014462  89.3096 270.8038  1.00240811    05
    Arc 20090519.86-0608.82 WRMS resid 0.010 totl 0.007 xtrk
    
    USA 202 passed 46.3 E on Jun 8 UTC, drifting west 0.118 deg/d. According to Mike
    McCants' int3 propagator, the orbit is fairly stable for the short term. Barring
    further manoeuvres, it will reach 42.4 E about 2009 Aug 04 UTC, remain there
    about three weeks, and then drift back to its present position by about 2009 Oct
    22 UTC. It would require a small manoeuvre to prevent it drifting to 58 E by the
    end of the year. My guess is that its intended range of operation is between
    about 43 E and 50 E.
    
    STSS-ATRR r                                              160 X 742 km
    1 34904U 09023B   09160.04931804  .00342198  00000-0  18360-3 0    00
    2 34904 112.5417 316.8829 0425829 272.9495  82.3025 15.37685075    05
    Arc 20090608.02-0609.06 WRMS resid 0.031 totl 0.015 xtrk
    
    05683A                                                 324 X 31601 km
    1 90040U 05683A   09159.59435123  .00000133  00000-0  10442-3 0    05
    2 90040  27.8398 305.1276 7000077  56.6499 351.8236  2.60052566    06
    Arc 20090519.83-0608.74 WRMS resid 0.005 totl 0.001 xtrk
    
    09526A                                                1201 X 39151 km
    1 90083U 09526A   09159.24329850  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    02
    2 90083  64.0767 320.8566 7145796 278.3251  13.1006  2.00622845    09
    Arc 20090502.81-0608.71 WRMS resid 0.012 totl 0.011 xtrk
    
    Ted Molczan
    
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