June 30 Lacrosse 2 orbit change

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Ian Porter has made another observation which indicates
that my previous guess for the mean motion change in the
orbit of Lacrosse 2 was too large.  The revised value
is 0.000450.  This corresponds to about 2.6 seconds per day.

Here is a revised elset:

Lacrosse 2
1 21147U 91017  A 97212.35772549  .00000030  00000-0  51444-5 0    05
2 21147  67.9810  28.7068 0004000 269.4487  90.5512 14.68643222    03

The maneuver took place about June 30.0.

The size of this maneuver is similar to the many small maneuvers
that Lacrosse 1 performed.

Mike McCants

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