Shenzhou - more ID changes

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:15:29 +0000

SpaceCom continue to shuffle the identities of the five objects from the
Chinese Shenzhou launch.

The current elsets for these are as follows. Ignore the names on line
zero - they were my guesses, but now I'm not so sure :(

Shenzhou                                         315 x 195 km
1 25956U 99061A   99325.54038797  .01113862  84150-5  75432-3 0    94
2 25956  42.5959  17.1232 0090320 139.5916 221.1728 16.06974146   239
Shenzhou CZ-2F r                                 315 x 195 km
1 25957U 99061B   99325.56651385  .01199987  84152-5  80112-3 0   120
2 25957  42.5983  16.9573 0090771 139.6708  12.4501 16.07071629   237
Shenzhou deb C ?                                 354 x 192 km
1 25958U 99061C   99325.18112465  .10812373  79135-5  78917-2 0    68
2 25958  42.7358  19.3197 0121935 144.5477 217.6897 16.00443728   176
Shenzhou deb D ?                                 409 x 181 km
1 25959U 99061D   99325.50275030  .07929586  78900-5  49490-2 0    45
2 25959  42.4744  17.9544 0170503 128.1999 233.4359 15.92583065   162
Shenzhou deb E ?                                 326 x 204 km
1 25960U 99061E   99325.54298401  .00677304  83670-5  59239-3 0    31
2 25960  42.5971  17.1316 0092126 139.8372 220.9381 16.03460667    75

As you see, there is another recent elset for the A object even though
Shenzhou was (supposedly) recovered late yesterday. Meantime, the object
that was B is now E and the new B seems to be identical to A (the elsets
epochs being at different points around the orbit). Both C and D have
changed, too. Note that the A(=B?) object is the one that Ruben probably
observed earlier today.

Alan
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