NROL-34: NOSS 3-5 elements

From: Ted Molczan (ssl3molcz@rogers.com)
Date: Wed Apr 20 2011 - 12:21:06 UTC

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    Bram Dorreman, Marco Langbroek, Tim Luton, Mike McCants, Alberto Rango, Brad Young, and I, contributed observations used
    to produce the following elements:
    
    NOSS 3-5 (A)                                           1015 X 1206 km
    1 37386U 11014A   11110.08061081  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    05
    2 37386  63.4386 340.0598 0127783 180.8174 179.2660 13.39314612    09
    Arc 20110418.84-0420.11 WRMS resid 0.034 totl 0.012 xtrk
    
    NOSS 3-5 (B)                                           1018 X 1204 km
    1 79937U 11014B   11110.08087585  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    00
    2 79937  63.4386 340.0611 0124479 178.6475 181.4910 13.39248108    00
    Arc 20110419.06-0420.11 WRMS resid 0.031 totl 0.015 xtrk
    
    The elements are reasonably accurate, but the arc is still short, so they have yet to settle down. The inclination of
    11014A tended to exceed 63.45 deg, which seemed a bit too high to accept, so for now I have fixed it to the value of
    11014B.
    
    11014B has yet to be publicly catalogued, hence the use of a pseudo catalogue number; if the procedure of all four past
    NOSS 3 launches is followed, within a few days it will be falsely catalogued as a piece of debris of 11014A.
    
    Ted Molczan
    
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