USSTRATCOM has issued a TLE of Tiantong 1 in synchronous orbit

From: Ted Molczan via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 17:41:36 -0400
USSTRATCOM has issued a TLE of Tiantong 1 that confirms that it was the UNID that Cees Bassa found on some of Paul
Camilleri's images of 2016 Aug 11 UTC. It was drifting west at about 0.5 deg/d when Paul imaged it on Aug 11 and 13 UTC.
It is now synchronous near 101.4 E, in a 5 deg inclined orbit.

Ted Molczan 


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