USA-179 underwent a retrograde orbital adjustment Feb 28 - the second one this month. Adjustments are normally posigrade. As well as being unusual in occurrence, the sizes of both recent manoeuvres are significantly larger has been seen for retrograde ones in the past. Current values: Mean Motion - 2.00620 ndot/2 - .0000133 There is a Mean Motion plot here: http://www.zarya.info/Tracking/HEO/USA179/USA1792008H1.php Bob Christy No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.2/1305 - Release Date: 29/02/2008 18:32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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