Marco Langbroek and Peter Wakelin contributed observations used to produce the following elements: PAN 35774 X 35803 km 1 35815U 09047A 11128.09151894 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 05 2 35815 0.0399 311.5184 0003453 20.9486 330.9328 1.00270000 00 Arc 20110508.91-0508.94 WRMS resid 0.004 totl 0.003 xtrk The mean motion of PAN is a guess. It does seem to be settling down near 45 E. Within the past hour or so, an official TLE of GSat 2 / 03018A / 27807 has appeared on Space Track (epoch 11129.00), which closely matches our orbit of 11623A, confirming that that they are one and the same. I suspect that 03018A is not being relocated, but is in its disposal orbit. The following orbit is my fit to the observations reported by Marco and Peter as 11623A, with the correct identity. GSAT 2 35849 X 35966 km 1 27807U 03018A 11128.47686134 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 01 2 27807 0.4106 78.8688 0013769 239.2227 119.5739 0.99846425 07 Arc 20110503.88-0508.93 WRMS resid 0.003 totl 0.003 xtrk Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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