In addition to Ted's, I find only Alberto's obs 20:06 on or after the day of the 03155.82943925 elset. He reported it being late, but apparantly not enough to make analysts believe there was a maneouvre. It looks like 1.5 s from 03154.07799401 elset. Could there have been an inclination change at ascending node, though perigee is at 046 ? And apogee raised just a minute after the obs ? OTOH 100 s in 30.75 h extrapolates (linearly!) to 0.0 s at 2003-06-04 19:38 - too good to be true ? On this assumption here is a search orbit (thanks to Mike for ElObsEnt.zip !) Residuals 0.01 deg: USA 129 jun 04.8-06.2 1 24680U 96072A 03155.82943925 .00030363 00000-0 32630-3 0 05 2 24680 97.7732 219.0378 0494535 45.3056 314.6289 14.84090068 03 24680 96 072A 2701 F 20030606025110000 17 25 0916508+345558 38 S 24680 96 072A 4641 G 20030604200613850 17 24 1651020+820736 18 24680 96 072A 4641 G 20030604200652160 17 24 0250370+731011 18 If this were a large maneouvre, it would have been made only two orbits before Ted's obs, around midnight (1.15 days after Alberto's obs) - very unusual. The small change means that USA 129 pass time diffs from USA continue to increase, but at a lower rate. Today 02:44 on a SB pass, a week from now 02:51, so expect the large reboost within this time frame. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Molczan" > USA 129 (96072A / 24680) was 101.92 s late on 1.3 day old elements: > 24680 96 072A 2701 F 20030606025110000 17 25 0916508+345558 38 S From Pierre/Alberto: 9607201 4641 200613.85 1651.02 8207.36 +-1' 9607201 4641 200652.16 0250.37 7310.11 1' ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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