RE: Cosmos 2410 launched - a new generation of elint satellite

From: Ted Molczan (molczan@rogers.com)
Date: Sat Sep 25 2004 - 14:04:37 EDT

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    Allen Thomson wrote:
    
    > It's being reported that it's new type of ELINT satellite.
    > 
    > > http://www.russianspaceweb.com/
    > 
    > Very interesting -- it would be useful to get  even a poorly resolved 
    > picture of the satellite to see if it's roughly EORSAT/US-PM-like in 
    > appearance.  Is Ron Dantowitz in the house?
    
    Its orbital inclination, eccentricity and mean motion resemble those of the
    Kobal't IMINT (imaging intelligence) birds.
    
    Cosmos 2410
    1 28396U 04038A   04269.45934191  .00515653  57005-5  17292-3 0    71
    2 28396  67.1499 240.5198 0143318  94.9864  18.4824 16.05114183   125
    
    Compare with the early orbits of the five previous Kobal't:
    
    Cosmos 2348
    1 25095U 97080A   97349.70570549 -.00001812  57285-5  00000+0 0    12
    2 25095  67.1508 305.8485 0135499  94.5064 267.0707 16.06905668    08
    Cosmos 2358
    1 25373U 98038A   98175.88588313 -.00001823  57647-5  00000+0 0    14
    2 25373  67.1296 176.2846 0126114  93.0668 268.4962 16.08559424    27
    Cosmos 2365
    1 25889U 99044A   99230.86516814  .00853694  57342-5  29074-3 0    32
    2 25889  67.1366 222.8062 0132123  96.8984 264.7306 16.07255989    23
    Cosmos 2377
    1 26775U 01022A   01149.79958589 -.00001806  57114-5  00000+0 0    19
    2 26775  67.1266 142.3626 0145153  95.7771 266.2031 16.04612957    18
    Cosmos 2387
    1 27382U 02008A   02057.36036259  .00856054  57445-5  27723-3 0    61
    2 27382  67.1195  41.3348 0135155  94.6990  25.4104 16.07111313   104
    
    Ted Molczan
    
    
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