Re: TSS/tether / 96-12B / 23805 decay

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Mike McCants scribbles:

|>The most recent elset looks crazy:
|>
|>1 23805U 96012B   96062.75066898  .00011831  59422-9  77606-4 0   174
|>2 23805  28.4530 221.7234 0059282 242.1655 104.4937 15.71978317  1394
|>
|>If this 62.75 elset is correct, the tether has broken and everything
|>below is now quite wrong.
|>
|>The drag is much too small and the mean motion is smaller than the
|>previous elset:

Interesting to note that the drag multipliers issued by Dave Ransom/Ken
Ernandes for TSS (used in conjuction with vec2tle) have dropped. Last
week they were ~45.0 and in the last couple of days they have dropped to
~1.0 (cf the shuttle which is typically in the range 0.01-1.0). The
tether and satellite body may well have separated as you (Mike) suggest.
The change appears to have occured sometime on or around 2nd March.

regards,

-- 
Neil Clifford                             <n.clifford@physics.oxford.ac.uk>
                        http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/sat/satintro.html

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