USA 310: ISON post-manoeuvre elements from Ted Molczan via Seesat-l on 2020-12-18 (SeeSat-L Dec-20 )
- ️Ted Molczan via Seesat-l (seesat-l_at_satobs.org)
- ️Fri Dec 18 2020
The following TLE is my approximate conversion of the latest ISON elements published by JSC Vimpel: USA 310 11073 X 11091 km 1 46918U 20083A 20342.96718750 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 08 2 46918 58.5247 290.6100 0005000 278.4020 81.5800 3.76293500 04 As of the above epoch (2020 Dec 07 23:12:45 UTC), the orbit was about 32 km higher than when last observed by our group (Marco Langbroek on Nov 25). Prior to the manoeuvre it made 15.046 nodal revs per day; afterward this was reduced to 15.005 nodal rev/d, i.e. a more precisely repeating ground track. I cannot exclude the possibility that it has manoeuvred in the interim. I still believe that it may increase its inclination to 61 deg. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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