The payload has a small drag term but the Centaur has a rather large drag term. Int2 predicts that the perigee of the Centaur will rise slowly over the next year and that will cause the drag term to decrease. But it will be a challenge to track for the next several months. USA 198 1 32378U 07060A 07346.89533062 0.00001757 00000-0 17534-3 0 08 2 32378 60.0106 317.1239 5543977 287.1515 72.8485 4.77580618 03 USA 198 Cn r 1 32379U 07060B 07346.84730914 0.00069200 00000-0 28374-2 0 09 2 32379 60.7629 318.0027 5493200 285.4805 74.5049 4.90067973 06 Mike McCants ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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