> > It probably doesn't matter that the TLE is three years old. The > satellite spends most of its time half the distance to the Moon and > beyond - the Earth's atmosphere is nonexistent there (I remember reading It does matter, because the lunisolar perturbances are considerable. See the elsets in Allen Thomson's reply. OTOH, an accurate integration program (INT2? NPOE?) should compute positions. Vec2TLE converts {X Y Z Xdot Ydot Zdot} to TLE's /Björn ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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