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