Re: Iridium 5 moved to non-operational orbit

From: Michael McCants (mmccants@jump.net)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 16:20:44 PDT

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Rod Sladen wrote:

>IRIDIUM 5
>1 24795U 97020D   01226.50230066 -.00000134 +00000-0 -45834-4 0 06836
>2 24795 086.4489 216.3794 0004874 080.7818 279.3935 14.43143194224005
>IRIDIUM 51
>1 25262U 98018A   01227.47301976  .00000113  00000-0  27806-4 0  5282
>2 25262  86.4497 215.9758 0004651  84.4184 275.7545 14.43145208178529
>
>represent *identical* orbits, so I suspect that the same object is being reported
>under both identities!

Yes, and that matches the current Iridium 51 orbit, so what this really means
is that Spacecom has temporarily lost Iridium 5.  Iridium 51 moved under
Iridium 5 and then Spacecom started tracking Iridium 51 as both objects.

Mike McCants

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