Iridium 84 manouver

From: Tony Beresford (aberesford@iprimus.com.au)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 07:18:25 PDT

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At 22:53 24/09/00 , Bjoern Gimle wrote:

>PS I just noticed that Ir 84 had a huge negative drag in elset
>Iridium 84 ?     4.0  1.8  0.0  6.0 d  7.1       673 x 667 km
>1 25530U 98066D   00265.54484900 -.01356334  00000-0  00000-0 0   808
>2 25530  86.5916  24.2017 0004182 344.7996  15.3651 14.67202425100572

The later elset  epoch 267.59 ht 677 by 676 mm 14.65137..
end the earlier one
                        264.52   669 by 651   mm 14.70339
suggest the orbit is being circularized and raised by 16km in the
process. 
Tony Beresford

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