I posted yesterday: >Here are my guesses for the Milstar 6 and its Centaur rocket: > >Pred Mil 6 >1 99991U 03098.83819000 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 09 >2 99991 4.5000 227.6000 0001000 0.0000 179.5000 1.00274000 02 I failed to find either object last night. I have reviewed the information for Milstar 4 and 5 and I have come to the conclusion that the RA of Node is always supposed to be 309. So I have new guesses for the elsets: Pred Mil 6 1 99991U 03098.83819000 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 11 2 99991 4.5000 309.0000 0001000 0.0000 98.2000 1.00274000 11 Pred Mil 6 Cr 1 99992U 03098.83819000 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 11 2 99992 5.2000 349.0000 0001000 0.0000 58.3000 1.00274000 11 However, these elsets have orbital insertion at longitude 91 west. Milstar 5 was at 94.3 west. The nominal information for Milstar 4 said 99.5 west. So there is still an uncertainty of up to 30 minutes even if this fundamental node value is correct. Mike McCants ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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