Antique element sets

Here I have listed Two-Line Element sets for some early space missions. This format is recognized by most orbit plotting programs. With a few exceptions I have produced them myself using various sources of orbital data. I have also tried to correlate some of the elemnt sets with radio and visual observations.

This information is for the real "aficionado" who wants to check radio or visual observations of these missions. I plan to include more early elsets later.

The element sets should be accurate (I hope ) for the early phases of the missions. (The checksum is not correct, BTW. It is just a "dummy" character).

Sputnik 1,2,3
Luna 3 moon shot
Venus launches in 1961
Vostok series including test flights
Voskhod series, including test flights
John Glenn's flight
Kosmos-140, the second Soyuz test flight
Kosmos-186 and 188, the first automatic docking
Kosmos-212 and 213, the second automatic docking
Kosmos-238 - a docking target?
First Soyuz launch
Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5
Salyut-1, Soyuz-10, and Soyuz-11, the first space station mission
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

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