Decay watch: 2000 Nov 16

From: Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 11:14:39 PST

  • Next message: Patrick Walsh: "Iridium Saved?"

    The Soyuz-U rocket that launched Progress M1-4 should decay tomorrow.
    There are predicted elsets for it on my just-updated Decay Watch page,
    plus more for the other current decayer...
    _____________________________________________________________________
    Object: #23824 = 96- 10 E = Raduga 33 aux motor
    Decay predictions:
    Source   Prediction made    Predicted decay at      Latitude Longitude
                   UTC                UTC                  deg      deg
    SpaceCom   (none yet)
    SatEvo     Nov 16 18:50     Nov 23 01:27 +-2d
    
    Latest elset:
    Raduga 33 aux motor                              3255 x 224 km
    1 23824U 96010E   00320.73130029  .12996017  25683-1  12395+0 0  9590
    2 23824  47.3850 180.1677 1867275  51.2250 323.4773 11.87087768 58576
    
    Note: SpaceCom has still to post any decay notice for this. 
    _____________________________________________________________________
    Object: #26616 = 00- 73 B = Progress M1-4 Soyuz-U rocket
    
    Decay predictions:
    Source   Prediction made    Predicted decay at      Latitude Longitude
                   UTC                UTC                  deg      deg
    SpaceCom   Nov 16 10:40     Nov 17 21:19 +-21h       17.8 S    45.5 E
    SatEvo     Nov 16 18:55     Nov 17 18:56 +-8h        42.8 N   128.9 W
    
    Latest elset:
    Progress M1-4 Soyuz-U r                          205 x 182 km
    1 26616U 00073B   00321.60897328  .03782878  00000-0  78413-3 0   103
    2 26616  51.6443  85.5137 0017570  90.7666 269.6018 16.29729259    81
    
    SatEvo prediction:
    ..(ends)
    Progress M1-4 Soyuz-U r                          149 x 140 km
    1 26616U 00073B   00322.70814999  .27867215  72326+0  42446-3 0 90108
    2 26616  51.6393  79.3336 0007137  95.3752 264.7062 16.48073392   268
    Progress M1-4 Soyuz-U r                          135 x 128 km
    1 26616U 00073B   00322.76870115  .64245892  42629+1  44354-3 0 90102
    2 26616  51.6382  78.9864 0004874  95.6342 264.4213 16.52979070   279
    
    Note: This enters eclipse while northbound near 41 deg S in the evening
    sky and leaves eclipse near northern apex in the pre-dawn sky. My
    initial estimate has this decaying just prior to a SE daylight pass
    across the USA from N California at 18:57 UTC to S Arizona at 19:00.
    _____________________________________________________________________
    
    
    Alan
    -- 
    Alan Pickup / COSPAR 2707:  55d53m48.7s N   3d11m51.2s W      156m asl
    Edinburgh  / SatEvo & elsets:    http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/
    Scotland  / Decay Watch: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/
             *
    
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe'
    in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org
    http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
    



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Nov 16 2000 - 11:17:27 PST