TDRS-H Elsets, Centaur underburn?

From: Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2000 - 15:07:38 PDT

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    TDRS-H,  12:56 UT Launch, 30 Jun 2000            30073 x 222 km
    1 99999P 00 0XX A 00182.55704398  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    11
    2 99999  27.0100 296.9983 6934000 177.3000   0.7370  2.74900000    13
    TDRS-H                                           27668 x 230 km
    1 26388U 00034A   00182.67293384  .00036898  00000-0  43796-2 0    27
    2 26388  27.0553 295.8641 6748842 178.3667 125.6576  2.99589418    00
    CENTAUR R/B                                      27739 x 231 km
    1 26389U 00034B   00182.39695846 -.00147415  00000-0 -17527-1 0    28
    2 26389  26.9816 297.0399 6754362 177.2000 188.4752  2.98805543    00
    
    The first elset was the predicted orbit.  From first glance it seems
    like an underburn.  As a general question, is it normal for the
    Centaur to end up with a higher apogee than the payload?
    
    Ron Lee
    
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