| Date: | 2005-08-09 17:22:00 | |
| Sender: | Frank Lemoine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center <flemoine@bowie.gsfc.nasa.gov> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1355: MMeteor-3m Status, and Request for Resumption of tracking | |
| Author: | Frank Lemoine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2005-08-09 17:22:00 UTC Message No. 1355 ******************************************************************************** Author: Frank Lemoine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Subject: MMeteor-3m Status, and Request for Resumption of tracking Dear Colleagues, As you are aware, the Meteor3M spacecraft experienced a rupture of its main pressure tank on July 27. A further pressure anomaly occurred a few days later. According to the Meteor3M engineering team, as relayed by the SAGE instrument project scientist at NASA Langley, The main spacecraft attitude control system, and the spacecraft batteries remain operational, and the power supply appears to be unaffected. The result is that the mean semiamjor axis as shown by NORAD elements has decreased from 7384 km before July 27, to approximately 7382.5 km after August 7. The venting appears to have ceased. The integrity of the SAGE instrument is not compromised, and collection of should resume within the next ten days. Accordingly, today we have distributed IRV´s for Meteor3M via the predictions exploder, prepared by Julie Horvath of HTSI using the NORAD TLE´s. We hope that you can use these IRV´s to reinitiate tracking of the spacecraft. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, and thank you for your support of this mission. Sincerely, Frank Lemoine Code 697, Space Geodesy Laboratory NASA Goddard Space Flight Center From: flemoine@bowie.gsfc.nasa.gov ******************************************************************************** |