karn@eagle.UUCP (06/17/83)
Here's a new element set via Millstone Hill. I now tend to believe these elements, as they predicted an AOS here 6 minutes earlier than the Goddard set. We did indeed get AOS earlier. Satellite: oscar-10 Catalog number: 0 Epoch time: 83168.05000000 Fri Jun 17 01:12:00 1983 UTC Element set: 1 Inclination: 8.6080 deg RA of node: 249.1370 deg Eccentricity: 0.7290751 Arg of perigee: 178.3420 deg Mean anomaly: 86.8220 deg Mean motion: 2.29579060 rev/day Decay rate: 0.0023431 rev/day^2 Epoch rev: 2 Semi major axis: 24277.706 km Anom period: 627.234905 min Apogee: 35599.832 km Perigee: 199.290 km Beacon: 145.8100 mhz If anyone knows which catalog # and international designator have been assigned, I'd like to know (for convenience only.) Phil