Re: COSPAR vs NORAD IDs

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The topic COSPAR ID / USSPACECOM (NORAD) catalog(ue) numbers
may be off-topic but I like to throw in my five cents...

I am not too concerned about five or eight or .. places, and I too think
COSPAR
conveys more useful information.

But to be useful, we also need the popular and efficient prediction
programs and
elset managers, and NASA OIG TELNET site TLE d(A)ta Base to accept
COSPAR as
object selection mechanism.

And before the format is standardized, we also require that the above
programs
/bases, AND SORT PROGRAMS, contain some artificial intelligence to
sort/display
the objects correctly.

I always request the 20 objects following the 30-day list at OIG, to get
newly entered objects.
This can't be done unless NORAD selection is kept (as an alternative).

(snippet, with a new(?) COSPAR variant : )
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Satellite number = 24964
The latest set =
1 24964U 9755A    97269.27083333 -.00002225  10894-4  53012-5 0    22
2 24964  51.6551 298.0292 0060298  95.8874 143.5308 15.81221107    22

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SATELLITE NUMBER 24965 WAS NOT FOUND!


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