RE: Shuttle and ISS proximity after undocking

From: Ted Molczan (molczan@rogers.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 12:55:01 EDT

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    The separation burn occurred on 2002 Oct 16 at about 15:00 UTC.
    
    Here are OIG's first Shuttle post-separation-burn elements and their latest ISS elements:
    
    1 27537U 02047A   02289.62536992  .00014229  15450-5  17369-3 0   325
    2 27537  51.6393 163.0330 0023545   6.1122 144.7823 15.59430985   930
    
    1 25544U 98067A   02288.91666667  .00048614  00000-0  61630-3 0  2666
    2 25544  51.6347 166.5948 0019459   6.7944 124.4947 15.58737080222860
    
    The following table states the number of seconds of time by which ISS will trail Shuttle:
    
    2002 Oct 16  17:56 UTC  Western Europe       5 s
    2002 Oct 17  00:08 UTC  Eastern N. America  14 s
    
    The separation will not be much greater on subsequent N. American passes.
    
    Observers should use the above elements to compute ephemerides for their location.
    
    I will post updated elements only if they significantly change the predictions for this evening.
    
    Ted Molczan
    
    
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