Re: Molczan elsets
Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 01:26:47 -0500
Note the quotes below from Mike M's page
http://www.fc.net/~mikem/tle.html
which includes about 4 different ways to download the Molczan elsets.
The file includes updates of the "interesting" US objects.
Ed Cannon
Austin, Texas, USA
30.3086W, 97.7279N, 165m
> Satellite elements
>
> Some of these files are automatically updated (see below). The rest
> are manually updated.
...
> Files of satellite elements containing classified objects
>
> Ted Molczan's weekly file: Version of July 24, 1997.
>
> July 24 - I have updated the unclassified elsets.
>
> July 22 - I have updated some of the classified elsets.
>
> Ted's file has approximately 1230 LEO satellite elements. It is
> updated every week on Thursday evening or Friday morning.
>
> This link is to my anonymous ftp area: molczan.zip (79K)
>
> This link molczan.zip does not use anonymous ftp. If necessary, be
> sure to set your web browser to save this file before accessing this
> link. (79K)
>
> This link is to a text file in my anonymous ftp area: molczan.tle
> (219K) Use ASCII mode for ftp access. This file does NOT have CR
> characters at the end of each line.
>
> n2l_desc The description of the format of the elements in Ted's file.
>
> notes.zip Ted Molczan's "notes". Nov. 28. (15K)
>
> classfd.zip Elements for classified objects. July. 22. (3K) Note:
> these elements are contained in the weekly Molczan file and usually
> there are more recent elements in the weekly Molczan file.
>
> These files are also available via anonymous ftp from ftp.fc.net using
> the following procedure: 1) ftp ftp.fc.net, 2) login anonymous, 3) use
> your email address as the password, 4) cd pub/users/mikem, 5) use the
> binary command unless you are going to get "molczan.tle", 6) get
> filename(s), 7) quit.