Elset errors possible? List of GPS-satellites?
Marco Hahn (Marco_Hahn@sl.maus.de)
Wed, 1 Apr 1998 21:44:00 +0200
On March 20th at 20:43:18 UTC I observed Cosmos 1104 Rk (USSPACECOM 11379=
) at
RA 15h01' Decl 73d25' (actually, I observed it along a 15-20 deg long pat=
h
before timing that position). However, compared with these three elsets
79046 B
1 11379U 79046 B 98072.58344359 .00000012 00000-0 -37970-5 0 8314
2 11379 82.9441 136.7520 0023146 99.9578 260.4196 13.76589182923134
79046 B
1 11379U 79046 B 98076.65376497 .00000049 00000-0 34538-4 0 8320
2 11379 82.9444 133.7309 0023381 89.1329 271.2511 13.76589877923698
SL-8 R/B
1 11379U 79046B 98089.59154877 .00000068 00000-0 53440-4 0 8350
2 11379 82.9435 124.1236 0023519 54.8231 305.5126 13.76591630925476
(which suggest that the orbit is very stable), my observation suggests th=
at
they are about 48s late and 3 deg off-track.
Did I misidentify this satellite? Are such huge errors in elsets possible=
? The
observed path was parallel to the predicted one!
And another question: Is there a complete list of (active) GPS satellites=
?
Hej d=86, Marco