Decaying rockets

Bjorn Gimle (bjorn.gimle@online.dextel.se)
11 Aug 1995 19:18:30 GMT

The following two Russian rockets are decaying very rapidly - both
are visible in the evenings from US and southern European latitudes.
I could not get Friday's elsets in time for observing - Friday's
ndot2 appears to to be 0.5-06, though elset 4 has a bad value of 0.11.
Also, ndotdot6 appears to be around 66666-1, not 22546-4 !
These values for Express affect predictions by about -20 +/-10 on 
FRIDAY evening, -3 +/- 1 hours on SATURDAY ...... ! 
It may decay Saturday or Sunday evening.

Express 1 SL-12 R/B 0.76 m2 Element set number = 3
1 23325U 94067  E 95223.18671688  .58454181  13022-4  20029-2 0  2971
2 23325  46.6658 144.2332 1645933 127.7624 248.3300 12.70324480  9438
Express 1 SL-12 R/B 0.76 m2 Element set number = 4
1 23325U 94067  E 95223.49760379  .11532761  22546-4  42545-3 0  2992
2 23325  46.6502 143.0837 1471125 128.6329 252.8952 13.09329614  9479
Express 1 SL-12 R/B 0.76 m2 Element set number = 2
1 23325U 94067  E 95223.18680556  .52200289  13968-4  28614-2 0  2985
2 23325  46.6727 144.2936 1641613 127.5196 248.6393 12.68282975  9432
Express 1 SL-12 R/B 0.76 m2 Element set number = 5
1 23325U 94067  E 95223.10787520  .54692419  13314-4  19652-2 0  2963
2 23325  46.6671 144.5176 1686881 127.5708 249.0514 12.60802654  9427
Express 1 SL-12 R/B 0.76 m2 Element set number = 1
1 23325U 94067  E 95222.96916131  .53713371  12948-4  18216-2 0  2954
2 23325  46.6708 145.0372 1758680 127.2942 342.8996 12.45107741  9408
Express 1 SL-12 R/B 0.76 m2
1 23325U 94067  E 95222.45846093  .38573554  13685-4  16497-2 0  2887
2 23325  46.6675 146.7433 1995036 125.7160 262.3738 11.91108217  9342
Express 1 SL-12 R/B 0.76 m2
1 23325U 94067  E 95221.50661771  .33671997  12412-4  18782-2 0  2836
2 23325  46.6986 149.6208 2330452 122.6627 267.0555 11.16305934  9238

Raduga 31 SL-12 R/B 0.78 m2 The latest set =
1 23015U 94012F   95223.33318313  .06422757  22539-4  42884-3 0  7965
2 23015  46.3756 201.7684 1765723  68.6424 309.1068 12.39323210 24103
Raduga 31 SL-12 R/B 0.78 m2
1 23015U 94012F   95222.44220194  .06493581  22087-4  44247-3 0  7938
2 23015  46.3698 204.8536 1817000  65.5685 312.2772 12.27778061 23997
Raduga 31 SL-12 R/B 0.78 m2
1 23015U 94012F   95221.46059687  .06485102  21580-4  45351-3 0  7895
2 23015  46.3716 208.1776 1873355  62.2450 315.8133 12.15109415 23875

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