Ballistic Coefficient Estimation for Reentry Prediction of Rocket Bodies in Eccentric Orbits Based on TLE Data

Table 1

Mean position residuals and reentry prediction errors before OD (only BC estimation) and after OD (see Section 2.3 for OD settings) for six objects with the lowest residuals after OD at 30 days before reentry.

NORAD; ID	e [-]	Mean position residual [km]		Prediction error [%]
		Before OD	After OD	Before OD	After OD
19332	0.153	660.0	9.9	2.3	1.4
7252	0.070	662.3	7.8	2.2	4.8
7794	0.050	105.5	3.0	6.3	6.1
9017	0.084	513.2	7.3	7.7	6.4
25240	0.087	422.6	6.7	8.2	9.7
25372	0.046	303.3	7.9	11.9	16.5