Subject: [SLR-Mail] No. 861: appreciation for LRE tracking From: NASDA > ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2001-12-21 09:06:00 UTC Message No. 861 ******************************************************************************** Author: NASDA Subject: appreciation for LRE tracking Dear colleagues, First of all, we would like to express our sincere thanks to ILRS colleagues concerning to the LRE tracking. In the night of Dec 18(JST), we heard good News from Grasse LLR station. Grasse has succeeded in the laser ranging of LRE. Using these QLNP(about 7 hours), NASDA succeeded in the LRE orbit determination and already distributed new IRV (#43) to all stations. We think that this success will be good chance for continuous tracking at the other stations because the IRVs of LRE becomes very precisely than the past IRVs which is generated by NASA TLE. About for a week(the period of validity of NASDA IRVs), new IRV will keep high accuracy. You can see the detailed analysys result on the web, http://god.tksc.nasda.go.jp/lr/comp30.html We need more tracking support by many stations and we would like to improve IRVs. Your help will be much appreciated. with best regards, Maki MAEDA -- ============================================================ Maki MAEDA TEL:+81-298-68-2625 FAX:+81-298-68-2990 National Space Development Agency of Japan(NASDA) Office of Satellite Technology,Research and Applications Satellite Mission Operations Dep. Flight Dynamics Group ------------------------------------------------------------ Sub-office; TEL:+81-298-59-2986 FAX:+81-298-61-1905 WINDS Project -Wideband InterNetworking engineering test and Demonstration Satellite ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Maki MAEDA ********************************************************************************