Invalid Element Values Reported by LogSat Professional While Updating the Keps  

Unfortunately some of the keps in the files available from our site (and others) are using an unusual format. Following is a small excerpt from the keps.tle file. As you may note, the Brasilsat 1 and the Nahuel I1 are two of satellite causing problems.We've also included 3 other "normal" ones. Please look at the entry for the Epoch Time (it's the 4th number of the second line for each satellite). For the Nato 3D the number is 97016.41932336. This stands for the 16.41932336th day of (19)97. Now look at the same entry for the Brasilsat 1. It's 97 16.11214381, with a space (rather than a zero) between the 97 and the 16. All of the satellites that cause errors have a space instead of a zero separating the year from the days, if these are less than 100. This invalidates the keps, producing the error LogSat reports. We hope that the distributors of these elements will soon revert to the normal fomat used until now. The current release of LogSat automatically fixes this error.

NATO 3D
1 15391U 84115A 97016.41932336 -.00000182 00000-0 00000+0 0 3931
2 15391 4.3358 57.3643 0001483 289.4777 258.9668 1.00270661 44603

BRASILSAT 1
1 15561U 85015B 97 16.11214381 .00000000 00000-0 10000-3 0 4248
2 15561 1.7969 76.9806 0003121 193.4074 166.5882 1.00270504 19514

INTELSAT 510
1 15629U 85025A 97006.87352947 .00000155 00000-0 00000+0 0 159
  2 15629 3.5217 67.5059 0002658 212.7722 173.6162 1.00273236 9389

NAHUEL I1 (ANIK C1)
1 15642U 85028B 97 15.72831679 .00000000 00000-0 10000-3 0 5929
  2 15642 0.0260 305.5988 0000632 335.8879 24.1139 1.00270233 48886

GSTAR 1
1 15677U 85035A 97015.55880037 -.00000100 00000-0 10000-3 0 4075
2 15677 0.5655 85.7837 0005841 145.3010 339.8143 1.00268366 17493
 

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