Re: Decay watch: Telstar 401 Centaur r

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:54:51 +0000

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Today's updated decay notice from OIG for this Centaur rocket predicts
re-entry for December 17 at 08:58 UTC +- 2 days.  My own analysis also
brings the decay slightly forward, but only to December 18.1 +-0.7 day.

The latest elset -

Telstar 401 Centaur r                            1778 x 119 km
1 22928U 93077B   98348.55463910  .22269845 -83797-5  12000-2 0  3496
2 22928  23.5105  19.2508 1132541 346.5146 180.9840 13.84362566 66053

- shows it running 44 seconds early on the prediction I posted
yesterday.

New predictions:

Telstar 401 Centaur r                            1658 x 119 km
1 22928U 93077B   98349.02265044  .19891603  12942-1  10527-2 0 93496
2 22928  23.5063  16.5161 1058709 351.2929   7.0054 14.01513082 66121
Telstar 401 Centaur r                            1517 x 119 km
1 22928U 93077B   98349.51769400  .21969062  14192-1  11007-2 0 93496
2 22928  23.5022  13.5391 0970815 356.4948   2.8714 14.22229166 66199
Telstar 401 Centaur r                            1366 x 119 km
1 22928U 93077B   98350.00523037  .24403956  19557-1  11473-2 0 93491
2 22928  23.4977  10.5121 0875644   1.7841 358.5088 14.44774602 66268

Alan
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