USA-179 is heading for one of its major orbit adjustments in the next week or so. See: http://www.zarya.info/Tracking/USA179/USA1792007H2.php Maybe it will coincide with USA-198 settling down into its operational location? The last manoeuvre of USA-179 did not fit the normal pattern. A small retrograde adjustment three days before USA-198's launch was followed by an unusually long non-manoeuvring period. The value of ndot2 still comes through quite nicely from watching the rate of change indicated by the VHF switching data: http://www.zarya.info/Tracking/USA179/USA179deltaN.php Current values: n - 2.0068 ndot2 - .000013 Bob Christy Lincoln, UK 53.2233 deg North 0.6004 deg West Height 59m No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1207 - Release Date: 02/01/2008 11:29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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