Decay watch: Orbcomm 21 Pegasus rocket

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 7 Nov 1998 22:52:00 +0000

This rocket came down pretty much on schedule. At the epoch of the final
elset from OIG ...

Orbc21 Pegasus r 1.3  1.0  0.0  7.0 d            161 x 146 km
1 25483U 98053J   98311.42558557  .17858254  10700-4  48428-3 0  1241
2 25483  44.9485 325.2007 0011709  69.7348 290.8046 16.44676350  7190

...it was running only 0.4 second late against the prediction I posted
yesterday. I think that decay was most likely at about 13:20 UTC
(November 7.56) over the NW Pacific.

Alan
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