Re: C 2348 Soyuz-U decay update

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:21:16 +0000

On a busy weekend for satellite launches (Progress M-37, five more
Iridiums, Intelsat 806 and Early Bird), OIG has gone AWOL being
unreachable for me since sometime between 23:05 and 02:00 UTC last
night.

One more elset for the decaying Soyuz-U rocket was obtained:
C 2348 Soyuz-U r                                 233 x 144 km
1 25096U 97080B   97353.84950105  .05409538  60714-5  27644-3 0   326
2 25096  67.1406 291.7043 0067585  91.2117 269.8264 16.31586230   682
which has it 1.3 sec early on the "9031" evolution in my previous
posting. It may be running a minute or more ahead of my earlier
prediction just before re-entry. The latter is now predicted for about
December 20.63 = 15h UTC +-3hours.

Alan

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