The manoeuvred occurred on 2004 Jun 17 at about 13:55:04 UTC, at perigee, over 72.277 S, 90.479 E. It raised the apogee by about 12 km, increasing the orbital period by 7.6 s. Thank you Pierre Neirinck, for raising the alert several days ago, of this manoeuvre. Here are post-manoeuvre elements based upon all 11 points of the two consecutive passes that I observed: USA 129 15.0 3.0 0.0 5.3 v 1 24680U 96072A 04170.14261921 .00006779 00000-0 94621-4 0 00 2 24680 98.0247 231.0198 0527859 252.3701 101.9214 14.72086403 05 Arc 2004 Jun 18.08 - 18.15, WRMS residuals = 0.023 deg Description of 2-line elements: http://www.satobs.org/element.html Here are all of my points from both passes. Please note that I have corrected my third point (02:00:56.14 UTC); I had reduced the wrong star pair. 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618015910270 17 25 1651793+154564 28 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618015926620 17 25 1654358+205775 28 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618020056140 17 25 1722494+531770 38 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618020109140 17 25 1731009+575071 28 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618020152160 17 25 1820645+712054 96 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618020353910 17 25 0158730+752218 97 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618033538660 17 25 1222323-042096 28 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618033635000 17 25 1156772+052035 96 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618033735020 17 25 1124377+155228 27 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618033742140 17 25 1120125+170651 96 S 24680 96 072A 2701 G 20040618033912520 17 25 1021069+304088 28 S What these numbers mean: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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