Tristan, >Below you will find the latest tle's from OIG. The UNK is a Gorizont >satellite which was launched with a Proton rocket. >But there is still no elset for 26373 which I believe is the Proton third >stage. Did USSPACECOM miss this one ? I suppose it has made at least some >orbits. > >UNK >1 26372U 00029A 00159.56606712 .00005302 00000-0 93530-2 0 93 >2 26372 48.7860 308.3316 7194860 0.3811 359.7988 2.32663418 34 >26373 No TLE found. 26372 is not the Gorizont. USSPACECOM failed to correctly identify the object because this time Proton was launched with new upper stage Briz-M (aka Breeze-M). Initial low orbit was achieved after the first Briz-M burn (hence the absence of usual B and C pieces, Proton third stage and adapter). Burns 2 and 3 resulted in the 48.8 deg GTO. In this orbit, Briz-M external tank was discarded and it is this tank catalogued as 26372. Then burn 4 was made to achieve quasi- geostationary orbit. Both Gorizont #45L and Briz-M are there uncatalogued. Igor Lissov ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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