The following is from my POC at NRL on TiPS:
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Hi Don,
Sorry for the mix-up. Our web server appears to be going haywire.
For some reason, the web page from August 1997 is being displayed. I
will try to figure out what is going on. In the meantime, these are the
current two liners:
1 00006U 00000C 00079.65277778 0.00001787 00000 0 20529-2 0 00000
2 00006 63.4243 143.2686 0130396 359.8269 142.8215 13.65750644148970
By the way, could you confirm something for me? I was down at NASA-Marshall
this week
trying to help the meteoroid/debris people understand why TiPS hasn't been
severed yet. Of
more importance to me was trying to warn them about how quickly the el-sets
degrade, which
is going to be a big concern when TiPS comes down through the ISS altitude.
I have been trying
to warn people about the fact that we do not predict the orbital motion of
tether systems
particularly well.
My first cut at it is that the US Space Command GP el-sets drift by ~150
km/day which
translates to 20 sec/day alongtrack (falling behind the actual position).
Have you received
any feedback from the amateur trackers which support this?
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Cheers
Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL
Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
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