progress tle , high drag factors

From: Walter Nissen (wnissen@tfn.net)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 16:22:54 PDT

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    Some recent elsets from OIG have had incredibly high drag factors, but
here are 3 which may be of some interest.

UNK SimpleSat   oig
1 26889U 01035B   01233.14681270  .00274686  00000-0  34931-2 0    75
2 26889  51.6392 121.3280 0014011  41.8984 318.3146 15.57802862  1617
PROGRESS M-45   oig
1 26890U 01036A   01233.77072885  .00199884  25346-4  70872-3 0    56
2 26890  51.6382 118.5983 0014078 346.5632  91.3524 15.88457051    60
SL-O4 R/B       oig
1 26891U 01036B   01233.76025117  .03146868  12069-4  86632-3 0    69
2 26891  51.6413 118.6786 0029873  67.8331 336.6598 16.25814939    66

Cheers.

Walter Nissen

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If a drag factor is too high, the object will arrive late.

Please note that "SL-O4 R/B" is not a name, but merely a description.

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