Markus Mehring observed, > Wouldn't make all that much sense, though, from an operational point of > view. Not everything Space Command does makes perfect sense -- remember the withdrawal of GPS TLEs during the Kosovo bombing campaign. But I think by far the greater part of the TLE oddities we see result from simple human error, perhaps exacerbated by rapid turnover of analysts and an antiquated working environment. See http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/spadoc4c.htm for just how antiquated it is. So I suspect the present lapses are most likely due to the arrival of a new batch of first lieutenants at the Space Control Center with the new year. (http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usspac/r10_5.htm has an extensive, if dry, discussion of how SCC does its business.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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