Hello, A H-IIA rocket was launched from Tanegashima SC with the onboard IGS-10 Radar image sensing spacecraft today 2017/03/17 at 01:20:00 UTC. The spacecraft was aiming to a circular, ~500 Km Sun Syncronous Orbit. The vehicle made a dog-leg maneuver during the launch. https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/03/17/h-2a-rocket-in-position-for-launch-of-japanese-radar-reconnaissance-craft/ Here are the search elsets, based on a previous launch estimations: IGS 10 505 X 511 km 1 70000U 15500A 17076.07708333 0.00000000 00000-0 00000+0 0 02 2 70000 97.5051 147.6898 0004046 301.7898 293.1841 15.18152820 00 The possible search elset for the rocket body: IGS 10 r 426 X 518 km 1 70001U 15500B 17076.07708333 0.00000000 00000-0 00000+0 0 03 2 70001 97.4511 147.6785 0067098 145.8180 88.2530 15.29983957 06 Allow it for several seconds per day after epoch and several degrees of cross-track error in the sky. Jon. -- Jon, COSPAR 6242, 42.9453, -2 .82839, 623m, Bitoriano, Basque Country. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Fri Mar 17 2017 - 06:43:37 UTC
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