On 01/22/21 09:16, Andrew Koenig wrote:
Have there been any signs of life from Fox-1E?
Ray Hoad sent out a TLE notice yesterday evening:
The following are unidentified satellites that have been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution: OBJECT B - Cat ID 47310 OBJECT C - Cat ID 47311 OBJECT D - Cat ID 47312 OBJECT E - Cat ID 47313 OBJECT G - Cat ID 47315 OBJECT J - Cat ID 47317 OBJECT K - Cat ID 47318 OBJECT M - Cat ID 47320 Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, notes that the unidentified OBJECTS C, D, and M are in the center of the pack and are good candidates for being RadFxSat-2.
SatNOGS thinks it is NORAD ID 99758:
https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/99758
However, there are no "Good" observations in the database. Here's an example of the silence heard by EA5WA:
https://network.satnogs.org/observations/3508412/
For comparison, here's the reception of CAPE-3 from that same station:
https://network.satnogs.org/observations/3498824/
FOX-1E (RadFxSat-2) has not been heard by the AMSAT community at large, either:
I suspect the operations team is trying it's hardest to figure out what's going on, and I'd expect another update any time now.
P.S. SatNOGS is awesome! I really need to get my station operational.
--- Zach N0ZGO