New decayers from AsiaSat launch
Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 25 Dec 1997 17:57:16 +0000
The launch of AsiaSat 3 has left a Proton rocket and a platform in
decaying LEO. The latter may well be down by the time you read this.
The latest elsets are:
AsiaSat 3 Proton-K r 209 x 154 km
1 25127U 97086B 97359.57592578 .03068221 12218-4 27060-3 0 65
2 25127 51.6165 89.2222 0042491 275.8909 83.7252 16.34171127 109
AsiaSat 3 Platform 190 x 161 km
1 25128U 97086C 97359.51525571 .11193482 12325-4 11048-2 0 74
2 25128 51.6041 89.5698 0021659 273.9013 86.0779 16.36456343 97
My SatEvo analyses suggest that the rocket may decay about December 27.2
and the platform today at about December 25.8.
Predicted elsets:
AsiaSat 3 Proton-K r 205 x 153 km
1 25127U 97086B 97359.75930859 .02997767 56577-2 23808-3 0 90023
2 25127 51.6261 88.2360 0039418 281.5195 78.0381 16.35181679 131
AsiaSat 3 Proton-K r 198 x 151 km
1 25127U 97086B 97360.00364748 .03488251 79385-2 22287-3 0 90027
2 25127 51.6256 86.8625 0035953 282.5449 77.0532 16.36759587 177
AsiaSat 3 Proton-K r 191 x 149 km
1 25127U 97086B 97360.24773123 .04207044 12246-1 20672-3 0 90022
2 25127 51.6251 85.4870 0032121 283.5718 76.0706 16.38625558 212
AsiaSat 3 Proton-K r 182 x 145 km
1 25127U 97086B 97360.49150759 .05322508 18857-1 18815-3 0 90027
2 25127 51.6244 84.1092 0027771 284.6005 75.0916 16.40930636 257
...update later
AsiaSat 3 Platform 161 x 145 km
1 25128U 97086C 97359.69799916 .35358565 90303+0 88746-3 0 90054
2 25128 51.6014 88.5435 0012151 274.2426 85.6185 16.44915919 122
AsiaSat 3 Platform 142 x 132 km
1 25128U 97086C 97359.75866027 .76848709 48554+1 70623-3 0 90055
2 25128 51.6000 88.1966 0007330 274.5020 85.4141 16.50993621 132
Alan
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