Hello all; The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is expected to take off tomorrow 2015/12/15 at 11:03:09 UTC from Tyura-Tam Gagarin's pad. It will fly with the Soyuz-FG classical rocket and they will try the fast 4-orbits renzezvous. Docking is aimed to be at 17:24:09 UTC +- 3 minutes. This TLE is the initial orbit estimation, just after spacecraft release after SC separation from rocket: SOYUZ-TMA 19M #0 198 X 214 km 1 70000U 15500A 15349.46667824 0.00000000 00000-0 00000+0 0 05 2 70000 51.6440 259.2934 0011851 54.4267 28.0135 16.25069103 09 Epoch is set at spacecraft separation & orbit enter time. Soyuz-FG's third stage should re-enter in the next few days. This time is not possible to estimate the renzezvous process as TsUP did not provide the information of the process, so the spacecraft should be late on time respect this estimation after the first automatically programmed maneuver. Note that even closer to the docking the spacecraft will go closer to ISS's orbit. Those are latest elements taken from Celestrak: ISS (ZARYA) 1 25544U 98067A 15347.85924076 .00017290 00000-0 26169-3 0 9997 2 25544 51.6440 267.4006 0008014 272.0100 195.3989 15.54742443975994 (http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/stations.txt) There are good passes over Europe about 1-2 hours before docking. Also, there are good visual passes over Asia in the first two revolutions, specially over Baikonur. If clouded, Marco Langbroek informed on Twitter about the frequencies of the Soyuz, that they are activated on Netherlands because the spacecraft enters in range of russian tracking stations: https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/675378691015340032 https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/675378849149005826 Jon. Be good! Jon. -- Jon, COSPAR 6242, 42.9453, -2.82839, 623m, Bitoriano, Basque Country. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Dec 14 2015 - 06:10:38 UTC
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