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S T S - 7 8 O R B I T A L D A T A
Below is the current State Vector and Keplerian Elements for STS-78.
The vector data comes from NASA; the orbital parameters were computed
from the vector. Hourly vector updates are available from NASA GSFC
OIG RAID RBBS at (301) 262-6782 or by telnet: oig1.gsfc.nasa.gov
(UserID = oig / Password = goddard1).
Vector format = 117
Satellite Name: STS-78
Catalog Number: 23931 96036A
Epoch Date/Time: 96184.79212847222
07/02/1996 19:00:39.899 UTC
EFG E: -11118937 ft
F: -17395653 ft
G: 6965669 ft
Edot: 13776.76 ft/s
Fdot: -14359.83 ft/s
Gdot: -13782.80 ft/s
ndot/2 (drag): 0.00222533628 rev/day^2
nddt/6: 2.05935E-07 rev/day^3
Bstar: 3.23539E-04 1/Earth Radii
Elset #: 42
Rev @ Epoch: 196.41489023199
Launch was 20-JUN-96 / 14:49:00.093
The following Keplerian elements were computed by VEC2TLE from this
vector using a 3.3 drag multiplier:
STS-78
1 23931U 96036A 96184.79212847 .00222534 20594-6 32354-3 0 423
2 23931 39.0125 288.3022 0006159 0.4467 148.9133 16.04106692 1967
Satellite: STS-78
Catalog number: 23931
Epoch time: 96184.79212847
Element set: 42
Inclination: 39.0125 deg
RA of node: 288.3022 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0006159
Arg of perigee: 0.4467 deg
Mean anomaly: 148.9133 deg
Mean motion: 16.04106692 rev/day
Decay rate: 2.22534e-03 rev/day^2
Epoch rev: 196
Checksum: 299
VEC2TLE may be downloaded from:
ftp.amsat.org /amsat/software/PC/util
Ken Ernandes
n2wwd@amsat.org
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