New GPS Satellite
geoffh@southlights.gen.nz
Tue, 21 Dec 99 23:39:00 NZST
Hello from New Zealand:
Back in October I asked if anyone knew what the new GPS satellite
(launched Oct 7 '99) would have as the PRN number.
Harro ( Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de ) replied and said it was to be PRN 11
I had no other data to confirm or deny this, but tonight for the first
time using alm2tle
ftp://tie.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/dransom/sat_track/alm2tle.zip
I downloaded the first almanac from the GPS sats overhead that contained
28 SV's for the first time, and the new one was PRN=11
Harro was right !!, thanks Harro for making my cross reference file correct!
TLE of "new" GPS bird (from alm2tle)
GPS PRN=11
1 25933U 99055A 99357.69318287 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 0000
2 25933 53.0157 355.5423 0029588 189.6714 33.6134 2.00566058 00002
The health of the SV is posted as not useable, and I guess it
will remain this way for a while until they know its heartbeat
is a good one.
So we are about to have 28 GPS satellites, should help DOP figures
and help trig solutions for us GPS users.
Regards, Geoff.....
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