Re: STEX, ATEX elsets

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:42:16 +0000

In message <007801be489c$3cd14bc0$5dc294cd@dzn.dzn.com>, Allen Thomson
<thomsona@dzn.com> writes
>It appears as if NRL, subsequent to the regrettable failure of the
>experiment, is no longer publishing ATEX  (NORAD 25489) elsets. And there
>have never been, to my knowledge, any released for the post-separation C
>object, NORAD 25615, which is presumably the ATEX-less STEX main satellite.
>
>Has anyone here seen either of these two objects?

Elsets for ATEX = #25489 are still available from OIG. The latest is:

ATEX             3.0  0.0  0.0  6.5 d            759 x 742 km
1 25489U 98055A   99025.21503059  .00000738  00000-0  21708-3 0  1659
2 25489  84.9890 157.4730 0011560  28.0528 332.1279 14.42416156 16472

Alan
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