Decay of AsiaSat Proton rocket

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 27 Dec 1997 08:50:02 +0000

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The final elset from OIG for the AsiaSat 3 Proton-K rocket is:
AsiaSat 3 Proton-K r                             134 x 112 km
1 25127U 97086B   97360.97680933  .46964348  12881-4  18417-3 0   181
2 25127  51.5849  81.3009 0016762 274.6412  85.2519 16.56380026   333

This is 19 seconds earlier than the equivalent elset in the "9013"
SatEvo evolution I posted here previously.

It may have re-entered near or soon after the following northbound
equator crossing (00:53 UTC at 28 deg W), possibly on a track across NW
Africa from Dakar in Senegal (at 00:59) towards Algiers (01:05). If it
continued, it would have reached Rome at 01:07 and Belgrade at 01:09.

Alan
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