Iridium 15 Delta 2 : the final orbits

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 18:45:42 +0100

The latest elset for this is:

Iridm 15 Delta r 5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            193 x 163 km
1 24874U 97034F   98088.62020877  .05683025 -13057-5  68899-3 0  3418
2 24874  82.6937 275.6456 0022639  87.6437 272.7462 16.35503161 41044

This shows it running 20 seconds ahead of the "9332" SatEvo evolution I
posted yesterday.

My current prediction is for decay at about March 30.20 (~04:48 UTC)
southbound near the equator at about 164 degrees west.

Predicted elsets:
Iridm 15 Delta r 5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            185 x 159 km
1 24874U 97034F   98088.74246576  .08775734  53312-1  83122-3 0 93417
2 24874  82.6930 275.5047 0020166  87.1347 273.0961 16.37695331 41063
Iridm 15 Delta r 5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            181 x 157 km
1 24874U 97034F   98088.80354699  .09876970  68966-1  74837-3 0 93419
2 24874  82.6927 275.4342 0018810  86.8798 273.3354 16.38831722 41072
Iridm 15 Delta r 5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            177 x 154 km
1 24874U 97034F   98088.86458299  .11319611  83264-1  67077-3 0 93419
2 24874  82.6922 275.3636 0017348  86.6247 273.5737 16.40121781 41082
Iridm 15 Delta r 5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            172 x 151 km
1 24874U 97034F   98088.92556731  .13119633  11640+0  59186-3 0 93419
2 24874  82.6917 275.2929 0015754  86.3693 273.8108 16.41605887 41092
Iridm 15 Delta r 5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            166 x 148 km
1 24874U 97034F   98088.98649167  .15751236  17606+0  52227-3 0 93411
2 24874  82.6911 275.2221 0013980  86.1136 274.0462 16.43353442 41107
Iridm 15 Delta r 5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            159 x 143 km
1 24874U 97034F   98089.04734393  .20030896  30263+0  46278-3 0 93416
2 24874  82.6904 275.1512 0011949  85.8575 274.2791 16.45506683 41114
Iridm 15 Delta r 5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            150 x 137 km
1 24874U 97034F   98089.10810404  .28476477  66397+0  41760-3 0 93416
2 24874  82.6895 275.0801 0009496  85.6008 274.5076 16.48384902 41127
Iridm 15 Delta r 5.9  2.4  0.0  5.6 d            135 x 127 km
1 24874U 97034F   98089.16872973  .55598627  28442+1  41402-3 0 93416
2 24874  82.6882 275.0088 0006138  85.3435 274.7266 16.53070665 41139

Alan
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