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From: wd9get@pur-ee.UUCP (Brandt)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Shuttle Oribtal Elements
Message-ID: <2968@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 21:57:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 18 21:57:50 1985
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Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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Here's the orbital elements for the current STS 51-G mission.


Satellite: sts51-g
Catalog number: 15823
Epoch time:      85169.64097164
                 Tue Jun 18 15:22:59.950 1985 GMT
Element set:    31
Inclination:       28.4685 deg
RA of node:       262.4166 deg
Eccentricity:    0.0018622
Arg of perigee:   248.0753 deg
Mean anomaly:     268.9343 deg
Mean motion:   15.66995142 rev/day
Decay rate:      0.00028744 rev/day/day
Epoch rev:               13
Semi major axis:  6749.952 km
Anom period:     91.895626 min
Apogee:            388.558 km
Perigee:           363.418 km
-- 
--Keith E. Brandt
  wd9get@pur-ee

 "Goodbye, cruel world that was my home-
    there's cleaner space out here to roam.
  Put my feet up on the moons of Mars-
    sit back, relax, and count the stars."
				--Ian Anderson