ORS-1 was launched from Wallops Island on a Minotaur 1 rocket, on 2011 June 30, at 03:09 UTC. It has been catalogued as 11029A / 37728, but official TLEs have yet to appear. The announced planned orbit is 40 deg, 400 km. Since its mission is imagery intelligence, and it has a propulsion module, it is reasonable to expect a repeating ground track. Here are some possible orbits, based on different resonances (revs:days). 46:3 383 X 397 km 1 73701U 11181.17908198 .00005811 00000-0 10000-3 0 05 2 73701 40.0000 137.7000 0010000 270.0000 90.0000 15.60000000 03 61:4 407 X 420 km 1 73702U 11181.17908199 .00005811 00000-0 10000-3 0 07 2 73702 40.0000 137.7000 0010000 270.0000 90.0000 15.52000000 05 76:5 421 X 435 km 1 73703U 11181.17908200 .00005811 00000-0 10000-3 0 01 2 73703 40.0000 137.7000 0010000 270.0000 90.0000 15.47000000 00 Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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