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Re: What are NORAD tracking?
> Until NORAD have sorted themselves out, I suggest you treat any new
> Keplers for Object 26609 with great respect.
>
> Day 337 Keplers for this object showed AOS at this QTH as 05:33utc. In
> fact actual AOS was at 07:20utc.
Since there was the possibility that they have it mixed up with one of the other objects
released involved with that launch, I downloaded keps for all objects with numbers
between about 26605 and 26615 . I disregarded objects with inclinations that weren't
between 6 and 7, and came up with about 4 objects, which they named:
STRV 1C, STRV 1d, ARIANE 5 R/B, and ARIANE 5 DEB (SYLDA) .
I ran these through a text based tracker quickly, and compared these to the old set 4
and the new day 337 set. At the time I did the quick check, there were only two of the
4 that came out relatively close to the set 4, and they were STRV 1C and STRV 1D.
So I thought that people might try checking the keps for these objects, to see if it fits
better. The keps are:
STRV 1C
1 26610U 00072C 00334.08544902 -.00000231 00000-0 00000+0 0 72
2 26610 6.3779 243.3696 7345780 184.3993 161.3861 2.02944539 265
STRV 1D
1 26611U 00072D 00332.59805774 -.00000178 00000-0 00000+0 0 30
2 26611 6.3882 243.6230 7344662 183.6015 170.8814 2.03417255 223
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