Hi All,
Feb. 05, 2001 0221 UTC
My yearly SSR breakdown report...late. :)
Part 1 of 2 NO ELEMENTS AVAILABLE
Per OIG/GSFC Satellite Situation Report vol. 41 # 12 ( December 31, 2000
)
Of 642 known objects which have been injected into space with little
chance
of being continuously positioned...
A) 500 objects cataloged as having no elements available. With the
exclusion of six (plus a surprising two more!) items shown here...
03948U APOLLO 10 LM (DPS) 1969-043C NO ELEMENTS
AVAILABLE
03949U APOLLO 10 LM (APS) 1969-043D NO ELEMENTS
AVAILABLE
06005U APOLLO 16 LM (ORION) 1972-031C NO INITIAL ELEMENTS
25131U LUNAR PROSPECTOR 1998-001A NO ELEMENTS AVAILABLE
25571U MARS CLIMATE ORBITER 1998-073A NO ELEMENTS
AVAILABLE
25605U MARS POLAR LANDER 1999-001A NO ELEMENTS
AVAILABLE
=> 25575U ISS (UNITY) 1998-069F NO ELEMENTS
AVAILABLE
26400U ISS (ZVEZDA) 2000-037A NO ELEMENTS
AVAILABLE
Breakdown count/type of these mostly classified/black objects:
181 Primary payloads
83 Primary payload debris objects
125 Rocket bodies
103 Rocket body debris objects
=====
492 objects no elements provided
B) 119 Objects are in various types of extended orbits plus following
23:
02395U ATLAS AGENA D R/B 1966-073B LUNAR IMPACT
02908U ATLAS AGENA D R/B 1967-075B LUNAR IMPACT
05234U MARS 2 1971-045A MARS ORBIT
05252U MARS 3 1971-049A MARS ORBIT
05261U MARINER 9 (MARS) 1971-051A MARS ORBIT
06754U MARS 5 1973-049A MARS ORBIT
08108U VIKING 1 ORBITER 1975-075A MARS ORBIT
08199U VIKING 2 ORBITER 1975-083A MARS ORBIT
19281U PHOBOS 1 1988-058A MARS ORBIT
19287U PHOBOS 2 1988-059A MARS ORBIT
22136U MARS OBSERVER 1992-063A MARS ORBIT
22138U TOS R/B 1992-063C MARS ORBIT
24667U MARS PATHFINDER 1996-068A MARS LANDING
05860U PIONEER 10 1972-012A ESCAPED SOLAR SYSTEM
06421U PIONEER 11 1973-019A ESCAPED SOLAR SYSTEM
10271U VOYAGER 2 1977-076A ESCAPED SOLAR SYSTEM
10321U VOYAGER 1 1977-084A ESCAPED SOLAR SYSTEM
07915U VENERA 9 BUS 1975-050A VENUS ORBIT
07947U VENERA 10 BUS 1975-054A VENUS ORBIT
14104U VENERA 15 1983-053A VENUS ORBIT
14107U VENERA 16 1983-054A VENUS ORBIT
19971U IUS R/B(2) 1989-033D VENUS ORBIT
19969U MAGELLAN 1989-033B VENUS ORBIT
PART 2 of the following will be posted shortly:
Count of both orbiting primary/secondary payloads & their debris
Count of both orbiting rocket bodies and rocket debris objects
Count of both decayed primary/secondary payloads & their debris
Count of both decayed rocket bodies and rocket debris objects
A file list (in same format shown) for each specific object type is
available.
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