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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
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Received on Fri Dec 18 2020 - 06:10:49 UTC