Re: OrbView-2 at Target Height
Bjoern Gimle (bjorn@tt-tech.se)
Wed, 03 Sep 1997 18:13:45 +0200
Eric Rosenberg wrote:
>Burns 31 and 32 were completed on 2 September, and OrbView-2 is now at
>its target height.
>
>Burn 31 2 Sept 97 10:00 UTC
>Burn 32 2 Sept 97 14:24 UTC
>
>Mean Apogee and Perigee based on GPS Orbit Determination Data
>Final Mean Orbit: 697 x 712 km
>Final Semi-Major Axis: 705.0 km
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Are these relative to oblate Earth? The difference is too small, but
much
larger than the following:
Recent elsets for SeaStar are not available at OIG (97243) but at:
http://plankton.gsfc.nasa.gov/tle/data/sel.new
SeaStar / OrbView-2 708 x 707
1 24883U 97037A 97246.00415509 .00000000 13844-3 -40461-4 0 10
2 24883 98.2200 343.4918 0000807 205.4116 127.2001 14.55478351 4958
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