Decay watch: Jun 6

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:58:59 +0100

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Object: #25728 = 99- 24 B = Orion 3 Delta 3 r

Decay predictions:
Source   Prediction made    Predicted decay at      Latitude Longitude
               UTC                UTC                  deg      deg

SpaceCom   Jun  1 22:01     Jun  5 22:06 +-3d         7.2 S   173.4 E
SpaceCom   Jun  2 17:20     Jun  5 16:10 +-2d        17.2 S    75.2 E
SpaceCom   Jun  3 17:42     Jun  5 17:43 +-10h       21.2 S    89.0 W
SpaceCom   Jun  4 18:37     Jun  5 19:05 +-17h        7.1 S   140.4 W
SpaceCom   Jun  5 09:41     Jun  5 20:48 +-7h        20.0 S   109.7 W
SpaceCom   Jun  5 14:32     Jun  5 21:00 +-5h        24.9 S    57.7 W
SpaceCom   Jun  5 18:33     Jun  5 21:00 +-2h        24.9 S    57.7 W
SpaceCom   Jun  6 09:31     Jun  5 21:25 +-37m       21.2 N    33.8 E

SatEvo     Jun  1 19:30     Jun  6 05:00 +-1.5d
SatEvo     Jun  2 19:15     Jun  5 23:00 +-1d
SatEvo     Jun  3 19:30     Jun  5 23:13 +-12h
SatEvo     Jun  4 21:45     Jun  5 23:13 +-8h
SatEvo     Jun  5 14:00     Jun  5 23:10 +-4h        22.1 N    97.4 E
SatEvo     Jun  6 14:40     Jun  5 21:41 +-45m       22.6 N   118.5 E

Final elset (45 sec early on yesterday's prediction):
Ori 3 Delta 3 r                                  211 x 114 km
1 25728U 99024B   99156.82142459  .37214362 -68095-5  33454-3 0  1045
2 25728  29.4714 205.3720 0073554 128.4019 232.2371 16.41266835  4737

Note: The SatEvo predictions were consistently too late and the program
is not (yet) happy with high-eccentricity, low-perigee decayers.
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Object: #23186 = 94- 43 B = APStar 1 Long March (CZ-3) r 

Decay predictions:
Source   Prediction made    Predicted decay at      Latitude Longitude
               UTC                UTC                  deg      deg

SpaceCom   Jun  3 20:14     Jun  7 20:47 +-3d        21.1 N    19.9 E
SpaceCom   Jun  4 23:41     Jun  7 20:25 +-2d        11.7 N    79.3 W
SpaceCom   Jun  5 22:29     Jun  7 23:00 +-1d        26.4 S   135.1 E

SatEvo     Jun  4 21:45     Jun  8 07:00 +-1d
SatEvo     Jun  5 12:25     Jun  9 02:14 +-1.3d
SatEvo     Jun  6 15:40     Jun  8 06:32 +-15h

Latest elset (111 seconds early on yesterday's prediction):
APStar 1 CZ-3 r                                  709 x 121 km
1 23186U 94043B   99157.51906513  .15585863 -92288-5  54638-3 0  6960
2 23186  26.5500 107.1875 0432694 286.2922  69.0036 15.50524144 68197

SatEvo prediction:
APStar 1 CZ-3 r                                  616 x 122 km
1 23186U 94043B   99158.03156245  .17629496  28463-1  58734-3 0 96969
2 23186  26.5470 103.4685 0366011 292.5306  63.6364 15.66469347 68279
APStar 1 CZ-3 r                                  498 x 122 km
1 23186U 94043B   99158.53815150  .24226476  66446-1  69323-3 0 96969
2 23186  26.5434  99.6953 0281410 298.8603  58.3442 15.87198293 68350

Note: Another high-eccentricity, low-perigee object and, as with the 
Delta, SatEvo is showing a later decay than does SpaceCom. I have
adjusted SatEvo's "Q-factor" for the prediction to better fit the 
decay over the past day.
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Alan
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