[amsat-bb] sat pc32 help

[Thomas Doyle]

Nick,

If you look at the 4th group of numbers in the first line (starts with
.1023) and compare it to the same group of numbers in a list of tle data
for several sats you will notice that even though .1023... is a small
number it is much larger than for the other sats. This value gets large as
the sat decays and the drag increases. Be very wary of tle data with a
large number in that position. Not a rigerous mathematical answer but handy
to know.

73 W9KE Tom Doyle
On Sep 15, 2014 6:25 AM, "Nick Pugh K5QXJ" <quadpugh at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> The below listed TLE for kicksat causes an error    invalid floating point
> opera any suggestions as what the problem is
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> KICKSAT
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> 1 39685U 14022F   14133.79926973  .10230793  12532-4  76634-3 0   839
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> 2 39685 051.6478 260.9431 0011364 321.6786 038.9487 16.39478651  3997
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> Thanks
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