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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 19:08:54 -0600
From: ABFHB@STDVAX.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Frank H Bauer)
Message-ID: <$sts-65.002.1994@ampr.org>
Subject: SAREX Status 7/10 at 1:00 UTC
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SB SAREX @ AMSAT $STS-65.002
SAREX Status 7/10 at 1:00 UTC

Silver Spring, MD, July 10 1994 at 1:00 UTC

At approximately 22:30 into the flight of STS-65, the Shuttle Amateur Radio
Experiment was set up and activated.  One orbit later, as the Shuttle
passed over the southern portion of the US, the Bair Middle School in
Sunrise Florida had an opportunity to chat with Commander Bob Cabana,
KC5HBV.  During the conversation, he looked out the window and reported
seeing partly cloudy weather as he passed over Florida. The Bair Middle
school had an outstanding horizon-to-horizon contact.  The team at the
school reported that 22 students talked with Commander Cabana during their
contact opportunity.

Gil Carman from the JSC ARC reports that element set JSC-004 varied from
the orbit 16 state vector by 15 seconds.  A new element set, JSC-005 has
been generated and is provided below.


STS-65
1 23173U 94105A   94190.62548630  .00052344  00000-0  15762-3 0    52
2 23173  28.4641   0.7490 0002728 316.9968  43.0429 15.90169039   166

Satellite: STS-65
Catalog number: 23173
Epoch time:      94190.62548630   =    (09 JUL 94   15:00:42.01 UTC)
Element set:     005
Inclination:       28.4641 deg
RA of node:         0.7490 deg           Space Shuttle Flight STS-65
Eccentricity:     .0002728              Keplerian element set JSC-005
Arg of perigee:   316.9968 deg          from NASA flight Day  2 vector
Mean anomaly:      43.0429 deg
Mean motion:   15.90169039 rev/day              G. L. Carman
Decay rate:     5.2344e-04 rev/day^2      NASA Johnson Space Center
Epoch rev:              16
Checksum:              293


Submitted by Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, for the SAREX Working Group

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