My ongoing project to log all the catalogued objects is now ready through 1967. If you want a PDF, just email me. It's 96 pages long now. As usual, you must be a registered Space Track user. All years prior to 1967 have been updated, including adding in the several recently catalogued objects from those years. Likewise the introduction. Recall the main virtue of this printout is that the orbital elements are the initial or earliest-known elements, not counting transfer orbits. These are not usually directly available from Space Track (just when there is only one TLE for an object) but must be calculated from their TLE archives, object by object. (That's what's taking all the time.) Also the object IDs are a bit more accurate (corrections always welcome). 1967 is a kind of milestone year. Not only is it the tenth anniversay of the space age, it's also coincidentally the year I graduated from college. So the Log now contains all the catalogued objects in the final copy of my original satellite database printout, done via card lister at MIT and deposited in the MIT Aerospace Library. I have no idea whether they still have that relic or chucked it out to make some shelf space. Unlike the present Log, my old printout included uncatalogued objects known to have been placed in orbit, major orbit changes and maneuvers, and known launch failures. These aren't in the present Log but will eventually be added to a larger "everything Log" once the present Log becomes current. By the end of 1967, I was running the satellite list deck through the University of Toronto IBM 7094. So I'm a bit less than 1/7 finished: around Flagstaff, AZ in my symbolic walk from San Diego to Buffalo, heading for New Mexico. Best, G.O. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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