Decay watch: Nov 15
Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:14:18 +0000
I had hoped to make a final pre-decay posting for #4222 earlier today to
my Decay Watch page at
http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/
but ran out of time trying to reconcile some suspect elsets near the
end. I now believe that this decayed at Nov 15 09:22 UTC +-1h close to a
northbound equator crossing near 46.2 deg W, at the end of the orbit
given by the final published elset...
AZUR Scout r 1.5 0.5 0.0 6.5 d 1.16 164 x 152 km
1 04222U 69097B 99319.32990496 .21364437 61568-5 84036-3 0 7762
2 04222 102.7562 151.8379 0009209 7.0508 353.3777 16.43140846439186
This puts it just N of eastern Brazil, bound for the Gulf of St Lawrence
at 09:34 UTC and westwards across the far N of Canada. SpaceCom has the
decay further around the orbit, while it was southbound over W
Australia.
Alan
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