Re: Iridium elsets
Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:00:42 +0100
In message <3430D2D2.F4D12DCB@tt-tech.se>, Bjoern Gimle <bjorn@tt-
tech.se> writes
>The Iridium elset file at OIG is a week old, and does not contain
>the latest group. The previous group, 97-051 is climbing and the
>OIG elements are invalid, unless picked from their TLE d(A)ta base,
>which http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/tle/select.tle does
>four times per day. Use that !
^^^^
eight (ie every three hours)! - when the connection to OIG allows.
There was a problem this UK afternoon but it seems to have cleared up
now.
I note that Mike McCants is placing iridium.zip files, containing elsets
for all the iridiums, in his FTP space, linked from his home page at
http://www.fc.net/~mikem/
Alan
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