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@bellsouth.net wrote:

The below listed TLE for kicksat causes an error invalid floating point opera any suggestions as what the problem is

KICKSAT

1 39685U 14022F 14133.79926973 .10230793 12532-4 76634-3 0 839

2 39685 051.6478 260.9431 0011364 321.6786 038.9487 16.39478651 3997

Thanks

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