Progress M-28M launch orbit estimations

From: Jon . via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 00:41:48 +0200
Hi all;

A Soyuz-U rocket is scheduled to launch the Progress M-28M spacecraft. The
launch will occur the 2015/07/03 at 04:55:50 UTC, according to the TsUP
data, from the Gagarin pad in Tyura-Tam Baikonur Kosmodrome. The spacecraft
will fly in the classical 2-day renzezvous, and the docking time will be
the 2015/07/05 at 07:13 UTC +- 3 minutes.


Satflare made a page for watch the launch (via NasaTv) and track the
spacecraft live:

http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=ProgM28M#TOP

The simulation starts automatically once the spacecraft enters orbit, about
9 minutes after launch.

As it will fly on the classical 2 day renzezvous, we have more visibility
windows. You can generate pass predictions on the link above of satflare or
in Calsky's page:

https://www.calsky.com/csephem.cgi?&object=Satellite&number=70100


The TLEs are:

PROGRESS-M 28M #0                                        186 X 237 km
1 70000U 15500A   15184.21112269 0.00000000  00000-0  00000+0 0    03
2 70000  51.6452   4.6711 0038398  90.7760 348.9309 16.22895362    01
PROGRESS-M 28M #1                                        217 X 260 km
1 70001U 15501A   15184.35903935 0.00000000  00000-0  00000+0 0    08
2 70001  51.6452   3.8553 0032564 159.8894  64.6033 16.13136856    03
PROGRESS-M 28M #2                                        256 X 299 km
1 70002U 15502A   15184.37570602 0.00000000  00000-0  00000+0 0    03
2 70002  51.6452   3.7644 0031625 294.4499  26.8638 15.98878517    08

The above elsets were initially calculated using Ted Molczan's method and
after that applied the first two Delta-V maneuver data of the TsUP.

Jon.


-- 
Jon, COSPAR 6242, 42.9453, -2.82839, 623m, Bitoriano, Basque Country.
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