Tuesday, July 04, 2006

NASA Space Shuttle Launch TLEs - Again





Here are the posted elements for the launch attempt this afternoon July 4.






SHUTTLE TRAJECTORY DATA

Lift off time (UTC) : 2006/185/18:37:55.000
Area (sq ft) : 2700.0
Drag Coefficient (Cd) : 2.00
Monthly MSFC 50% solar flux (F10.7-jansky) : 79.4
Monthly MSFC 50% earth geomagnetic index (Kp) : 2.22
ET - UTC (sec) : 65.18
UT1 - UTC (sec) : 0.00

Coasting Arc #1 (begining on orbit 1)
Vector Time (GMT): 2006/185/18:48:24.000
Vector Time (MET): 000/00:10:29.000
Weight (LBS) : 255113.7

TWO LINE MEAN ELEMENT SET
SHUTTLE
1 99999U 06185.83405673 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9007
2 99999 51.6298 97.0761 0039171 347.5451 12.4801 16.76636654 26


Coasting Arc #2 (begining on orbit 1)
Vector Time (GMT): 2006/185/19:16:26.918
Vector Time (MET): 000/00:38:31.918
Weight (LBS) : 252602.1

TWO LINE MEAN ELEMENT SET
SHUTTLE
1 99999U 06185.83481559 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9015
2 99999 51.6298 97.0838 0054912 341.1886 18.7277 16.30517194 26


Coasting Arc #3 (begining on orbit 11)
Vector Time (GMT): 2006/186/10:43:39.699
Vector Time (MET): 000/16:05:44.699
Weight (LBS) : 251561.4

TWO LINE MEAN ELEMENT SET
SHUTTLE
1 99999U 06186.44742686 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9025
2 99999 51.6324 93.6688 0083791 348.1321 11.7892 16.23859786 124


You can get the complete set at Shuttle Trajectory Data

Image courtesy of NASA/KSC.