James Sebolt posted: >I had checked those two files, but on re-checking do not see >any flag on the TLE entry. Sorry for the confusion. Ed specified mccants.tle and the iridium status text file that appears on my web pages. You are refering to a third file, iridium.tle. I maintain all three files independently, so there was a discrepancy between them. I have now changed all three files in the following way: I have created a new suffix "Fl" which means "failed". In some sense this is similar to "tum" which means "tumbling", but the three failed objects with "Fl" seem to be tumbling only very slowly, if at all. 25043 Iridium 38 Fl Failed 25344 Iridium 73 Fl Failed 25527 Iridium 2 Fl Failed I have also changed Iridium 69 to "tum", but it does tumble only very slowly: 25319 Iridium 69 tum Failed Mike McCants ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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