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ARLS018 STS-59/SAREX update

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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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