Spaceflight Now reports that the launch has been officially declared a success: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av006/status.html As reported earlier, NROL-22 should now be in this approximate orbit: SECO2 1117 X 37642 km 1 71001U 08000A 08073.68144909 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 09 2 71001 62.4000 39.5602 7090000 266.5070 180.0000 2.10000000 02 The orbit is well placed for visual observation from at least Europe and North America. NROL-22's standard visual magnitude should be similar to that of USA 184, 3.5 +/- 1.5 (1000 km range, 90 deg phase-angle). At mid-northern latitudes, it may reach mag 8, under the most favourable conditions of range and illumination. At apogee it will be about mag 11. http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/06027A_std_mag.pdf Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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