USA 129 recovered by Russell Eberst

From: Ted Molczan (molczan@rogers.com)
Date: Sun Feb 22 2004 - 07:41:43 EST

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    Nice work Russell, on your recovery of 96072A:
    
    http://satobs.org/seesat/Feb-2004/0148.html
    
    I produced the following elset by propagating Mike's latest pre-manoeuvre elset
    to the ascending node prior to Russell's final observation, then performing a
    differential correction, holding drag, inclination and argument of perigee
    constant:
    
    USA 129         15.0  3.0  0.0  5.3 v
    1 24680U 96072A   04052.88416303  .00013335  00000-0  17539-3 0    04
    2 24680  97.7960 115.3456 0532143 269.8676  84.1578 14.72314543    04
    
    WRMS residuals = 0.022 deg
    
    The main effect of the manoeuvre appears to have been to raise the perigee by 10
    to 15 km. Solar gravity had gradually pulled it lower than desired.
    
    Further tracking will enable a more precise understanding of the manoeuvre.
    
    Ted Molczan
    
    
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