Proton RB + Platform decayed

From: Harro.Zimmer (Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 08:31:22 PDT

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    Report time 14:40 UTC
    
    2000-051B (#26484) Proton 3. Stage
    
    In its FINAL REPORT - prepared September 6, 02:24 UTC - SpaceCom shows the decay
    on                  6 September, 02:17 UTC +/- 07 minutes (16.0°N, 315.7°E)
    on a southbound pass over the Mid-Atlantic.
    
    MPM + REENTRY delivers with the last two ELSETs 00249.887... and 00250.068... the
    decay on            6 September, 02:21.6 UTC +/- 11 minutes (1.80°S. 322.78°E)
    on the same pass also over the Atlantic near the South American coast.
    
    
    2000-51C (#26485) Proton Platform
    
    SpaceCom's FINAL REPORT - prepared September 5, 22:44 UTC - shows the decay on
                        5 September, 15:43 UTC +/- 53 minutes  (34.3°N, 324.7°E)
    on an ascending pass over the Atlantic. 
     
    MPM + REENTRY delivers with the last ELSET 00249.583...  the decay on
                        5 September, 15:42 UTC +/- 45 minutes (30.82°N, 322.39°E)
    also over the Atlantic.
    Don't overestimate this good agreement. I have no parameters (mass, dimensions)
    for the "platform". Is it really a platform or a casing? My calculation based
    on an empirical derived ballistic coefficient from all ELSETs and from earlier
    objects.
    
    Harro
    Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de
    Berlin, Germany 
    
    
    
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