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SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS018
ARLS018 STS-59/SAREX update
ZCZC AS62
QST de W1AW
Space Bulletin 018 ARLS018
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT April 11, 1994
To all radio amateurs
SB SPACE ARL ARLS018
ARLS018 STS-59/SAREX update
STS-59/SAREX Update
After the successful check pass on April 9, the SAREX Working Group
has had several reports of packet radio operation and some general
voice QSO operation during the Shuttle passes over the US. In
addition, the St. Bernard High School in Playa Del Rey, CA had a
very excellent school group pass on April 10 (Rev 19). Students
asked the astronauts a total of seven questions.
The official SAREX element set for this morning, April 11, will be
GSFC-005. This element sent was generated by Ron Parise, WA4SIR, of
the Goddard Space Flight Center. Gil Carman, WA5NOM, reports that
the predictions using GSFC-005 are closer to the real-time Orbiter
state vector than GSFC-007 or JSC-009.
STS-59
1 23042U 94020A 94 99.70643805 0.00018312 11043-4 10773-4 0 58
2 23042 56.9974 262.7245 0009489 267.3550 92.6453 16.20229092 67
Satellite: STS-59
Catalog number: 23042
Epoch time: 94099.70643805 (09 APR 94 16:57:16.25 UTC)
Element set: GSFC-005
Inclination: 56.9974 deg
RA of node: 262.7245 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-59
Eccentricity: 0.0009489 Keplerian Elements
Arg of perigee: 267.3550 deg
Mean anomaly: 92.6453 deg
Mean motion: 16.20229092 rev/day Semi-major Axis: 6597.0622 Km
Decay rate: 0.18E-03 rev/day2 Apogee Alt: 224.93 Km
Epoch rev: 5 Perigee Alt: 212.41 Km
NOTE - This element set is based on NORAD element set 005.
The spacecraft has been propagated to the next ascending
node, and the orbit number has been adjusted to bring it
into agreement with the NASA numbering convention.
Thanks to Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO of the SAREX Working Group for the
preceding information.
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