PRN01 on the air

PRN30 has been removed from the broadcast almanac.
PRN01 has been included in the almanac:

******** Week 621 almanac for PRN-01 ********
ID: 01
Health: 063
Eccentricity: 0.2546310425E-003
Time of Applicability(s): 589824.0000
Orbital Inclination(rad): 0.9600353241
Rate of Right Ascen(r/s): -0.7490598364E-008
SQRT(A) (m 1/2): 5180.309570
Right Ascen at Week(rad): -0.1884143710E+001
Argument of Perigee(rad): 2.479846239
Mean Anom(rad): 0.1795769095E+001
Af0(s): -0.9536743164E-005
Af1(s/s): 0.0000000000E+000
week: 621


--- CHAS

On 2011-07-21 11:11 , HIPAR wrote:

Do you know which vehicle (model, #) this is?

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Yes, sorry for the brevity of my report.

It's GPS IIF-2 (SVN63) launched into Plane D from the Cape 16 July.
It's transmitting but set unusable during an expected thirty day
commissioning.

NORAD:

Catalog 37753
NAVSTAR 66 (USA 232)

International designation:

2011-036A

Currently, SVN63 is moving through Plane D. Its currently completing
1.974 orbits per day. GPS satellites typically complete 2.006 orbits
per day. So, expect positioning maneuvers during commissioning.

--- CHAS

On 2011-07-21 12:35 , HIPAR wrote:

Sounds like they've inserted it slightly high until it 'backs' into
position, then they'll burn a bit and drop it to the correct orbit and
potentially mix that with an effort to make the orbit more circular ( I
didn't look at the almanac to see if it was more elliptical, just seems
to make sense to combine maneuvers to conserve reactive mass for the future)

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Great !

Two questions:
1 - There's still a limitation of 31 Active PRNs (control segment
limited) ? If true, then PRN30 will be vacant until the next bird gets
decommissioned...
2 - Inclusion in the broadcast almanac doesn't imply activation of L-
band transmitters ?

Marcelo Pacheco