RAE

The revised RAE tables 1957-1992

The RAE Table of Earth Satellites was published by RAE and later by DRA up to 1992. As a yearlong subscriber to the monthly updates I much appreciate the effort that was put in to compile the table. Although the table was continued as the World Wide Satellite Launches by Phillip Clark in a somewhat different layout and with updates to launches in 1957-1992; the need for a big update has become clear from my fellow satellite observers around the world.

A digital form is preferred to make further updates easier. In 2000 I've started to scan the RAE Table 1957-1989 and converting it to Word2000 documents, one for each year. The last file was completed in October 2003; all years have been updated with recent orbital information in 2004 and info was added to the debrissection.
In 2005 I've started to update the table with orbital information for the decayed objects.
Also debrispages were added for the years 1993-2005.

Now version 1.01 from 2004 December 31 is available.
The new pages are version 1-02 2005.

An explantion of the table can be found in the foreword, that also inclueds the original Introductions to the tables.

Several updates have been made:

Conversion of the Greek nomenclature

Adding the Norad Catalogue numbers

Adding and updating Launch vehicle info

Adding Launchsite and launchplatform

Renaming pieces of debris to rocket-stages, despin-weights

Decaydates and lifetimes

Adding recent orbital information for objects still in orbit

Including full details for Space Vehicles from the DRA table of Space Vehicles 1958-1991

For launches with a lot of fragments details are given in extra pages at the end of the year

On the next page all the files are listed.

Updated: 2005 June 5
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