I have updated my Decay watch page at http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/ with my final analysis of the decay of #25947 = 99- 58 E = Globalstar 31 Soyuz rocket. In fact, as Harro Zimmer has reported, OIG's feed of elsets and SpaceCom decay warnings failed prior to this decay and, to date, at least three of the final four elsets for this are missing and none of SpaceCom's warnings have appeared since that issued about 12 hours before reentry. The final elset... Globlstar 31 r 6.0 3.0 0.0 4.5 d 19 164 x 136 km 1 25947U 99058E 00064.10583225 .17870647 12299-4 29234-3 0 2593 2 25947 51.9038 289.4557 0021913 222.6180 137.4788 16.45951906 21245 shows it running very close to my final prediction, being only 2.3 seconds early after eight hours. A new analysis, however, suggests a slightly later decay at Mar 4 05:37 UTC +-45m near 32.6 N, 72.0 E. This places it northbound over NE Pakistan though is possible that it survived to decay while southbound over the Pacific. If so, I note that there was a pass just to the W of the main Hawaiian Is at 06:04 UTC. Alan -- Alan Pickup | COSPAR 2707: 55d53m48.7s N 3d11m51.2s W 156m asl Edinburgh | Tel: +44 (0)131 477 9144 Fax: +44 (0)870 0520750 Scotland | SatEvo page: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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