Re: [amsat-bb] AO-07: orbits 26397 & 26398

[rdwelch@xxxxxxxxxx]

By golly, you are correct.  I went back and looked at my code in ORBITS III
and I had made that field large enough to hold a big number.  Don't know
why though.

Paul Williamson wrote:
> 
> At 07:44 PM 6/30/2002 +0000, rdwelch@swbell.net wrote:
> >I guess most of the tracking programs never dreamed of allowing for an
> >orbit number greater
> >than 99,999. :-)
> 
> Hey, don't blame the tracking programs. The limitation is in the NASA/NORAD
> 2-line element set format. There are only five columns allocated for
> "Revolution number at epoch" in the format definition.
> 
> The AMSAT format has no such limitation. It's an interesting question
> whether the AMSAT-format bulletins ought to contain the corrected number or
> the same number as the NASA-format bulletins.
> 
> 73  -Paul
> kb5mu@amsat.org
> 
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