Re: Where is USA 116 ?

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I have received an orbit from Rainer Kracht:

USA 116 RK                                       1020 x 260
1 23728U 95066A   97266.25358740  .00024077  00000-0  22388-3 0    01
2 23728  97.9454  16.0070 0541515 200.4988 157.1479 14.76583443    07

which indicates a perigee kick around 20:15 UT on Sep.11, or a few
orbits later, of -0.012 in MM. B*/ndot2 seem to be a short-term
maximum, so I have used a normal value for extrapolation:

USA 116 extrapolated                             1012 x 260
1 23728U 95066A   97317.79986453  .00012931  75442-9  12330-3 0    53
2 23728  97.9454  67.0772 0536164  33.4866 329.9062 14.77971951  7623

This would put it 4h 17 after USA 129, and slowly closing.

Latest orbit of USA 129 from Mike McCants:

USA 129                                          1012 x 257
1 24680U 96072  A 97326.46819632  .00015500  00000-0  13533-3 0    02
2 24680  97.8380  24.6248 0538000 151.1442 208.8557 14.78424431    00

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