[Neocp_artsats] C44GZR1 = C44EEK1 = ETBO; C44HG91 = Hakuto-R
Bill Gray
pluto at projectpluto.com
Fri Feb 21 08:33:35 EST 2025
C44GZR1, currently on NEOCP, links nicely to C44EEK1, which was
added to NEOCP on Feb 5 :
https://www.projectpluto.com/pluto/mpecs/c44gzr1.htm
C44HG91 = Hakuto-R, to my surprise. Linked orbit at
https://www.projectpluto.com/pluto/mpecs/hakuto_r.htm
I say "surprise" because this spacecraft had a lunar flyby on Feb 15,
and I _thought_ it was going to enter lunar orbit. So I didn't even
post updated ephems/TLEs for it.
Had I done so, it still would have wound up on NEOCP. The
post-flyby uncertainties were pretty high.
I am unable to make much sense of the post-flyby orbit (doesn't come
back around near the moon any time soon). So perhaps the folks running
the spacecraft were also surprised, unpleasantly, by their spacecraft
failing to enter lunar orbit? More data will be required (and will
probably come in in the ordinary course of things.)
I am unable to submit artsat IDs for these objects to MPC (out and
about with a laptop lacking the relevant code... poor planning on my
part), but will submit them when I get home late tomorrow unless
somebody beats me to it.
-- Bill
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