Re: Tethered sat with NOSS 2-3
Rainer Kracht (R.Kracht@t-online.de)
Sun, 23 Jun 96 13:34 +0100
>Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:04:14 -0700
>From: thomsona@netcom.com (Allen Thomson)
>To: seesat-l@iris01.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
>Subject: Tethered sat with NOSS 2-3
> This tethered object, presumably tossed from the "A" object
>of the recent NOSS 2-3 launch, should be an interesting
>object for the amateur satellite watchers' community to try to
>find. Those equipped for video should try to get pictures.
From
96-29A
1 23862U 96029 A 96172.50000000 .00001706 00000-0 43198-2 0
2 23862 63.4151 171.5923 0004921 148.9913 242.1585 13.18633240
I have derived this search orbit:
TiPS a
1 96290U 96029 96172.50000000 .00004000
2 96290 63.4200 171.6000 0001000 150.0000 240.0000 13.63440000
TiPS b
1 96290U 96029 96172.50000000 .00004000
2 96290 63.4200 171.6000 0001000 150.0000 180.0000 13.63440000
TiPS c
1 96290U 96029 96172.50000000 .00004000
2 96290 63.4200 171.6000 0001000 150.0000 120.0000 13.63440000
TiPS d
1 96290U 96029 96172.50000000 .00004000
2 96290 63.4200 171.6000 0001000 150.0000 60.0000 13.63440000
TiPS e
1 96290U 96029 96172.50000000 .00004000
2 96290 63.4200 171.6000 0001000 150.0000 0.0000 13.63440000
TiPS f
1 96290U 96029 96172.50000000 .00004000
2 96290 63.4200 171.6000 0001000 150.0000 300.0000 13.63440000
Rainer Kracht 1996 June 23
R.Kracht@t-online.de
+9.6626E, +53.7695N, 9m