USSTRATCOM has catalogued the second NOSS 3-6 payload as 12048P / 38773, and as usual for 3rd generation NOSS, falsely identified it as a piece of debris of the first payload. I am reissuing my earlier TLE, with the official catalogue number: 1 38773U 12048P 12263.46712754 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06 2 38773 63.4252 27.5502 0128027 179.1345 180.9925 13.40607252 07 Observations of USA 237 by Marco Langbroek, Greg Roberts and Peter Wakelin, between 2012 Sep 14 and 19 UTC, reveal it was synchronous, near 47.74 E. USA 237 35646 X 35929 km 1 38528U 12034A 12263.70008780 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 03 2 38528 3.3962 299.3284 0033631 312.0564 47.3885 1.00272796 04 Arc 20120914.89-0919.89 WRMS resid 0.003 totl 0.003 xtrk Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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