On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Jonathan T Wojack wrote:
> Shenzhou 3 337 x 331 km
> 1 27397U 02014A 02086.74132786 .00089840 00000-0 49391-3 0 88
> 2 27397 42.4003 15.5356 0004079 289.1032 161.0882 15.78701806 349
> Shenzhou 3 r 10.0 3.0 0.0 4.0 d 20 313 x 194 km
> 1 27398U 02014B 02086.40902778 .01156112 82793-5 75896-3 0 56
> 2 27398 42.3943 17.2034 0089491 142.0832 8.3691 16.07485935 290
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> I still see no evidence of manuvering of the Shenzhou III craft. Its
> orbital dimensions have not changed in ~ 26 hours. It looks like a
> standard magnitude of +4 has been assigned to rocket by a RADAR
> cross-sectional analysis.
Check my story on www.janes.com.
SZ 3 _did_ manoeuvre but it was before USSPACECOM issued the first element
set. Compare the first-catalogued orbits of 14A and 14B.
Phillip Clark
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