All,
As witnessed by Mike, DK3WM, the TLE sets of some of the Cubesats from this launch have been cross-tagged a couple of days ago. TuPOD is now object 41936, 1998-067KY. Probably Tancredo 1 is now 41931, 1998-067KT, and OSNSAT is 41939, 1998-067KZ. I informed Kelso and he has now updated CelesTrak. Unfortunately Space-Track is still using the IDs that they originally guessed.
TuPOD's batteries are empty so the satellite is not transmitting anymore. Also Tancredo 1 does not seem to transmit anymore, at least not when in eclipse. As far as I know, Waseda-Sat 3 never transmitted any signals.
73, Nico PA0DLO
On 21-01-17 14:29, Nico Janssen wrote:
All,
Apparently the Tubesat deployment from TuPOD on 2017-01-19 was around 23:30 UTC (so not around 22:00 UTC).
Either Tancredo 1 or OSNSAT is now tracked by the JSpOC as object 41936, 1998-067KY. (There is a typo in the TLE set: '16067KY' should read '98067KY'.)
73, Nico PA0DLO
On 20-01-17 16:03, Nico Janssen wrote:
All,
Last Monday 2017-01-16 six cubesats were launched from the Japanese Kibo module of the ISS, using the J-SSOD cubesat deployer.
ITF 2, Waseda-sat 3 and Freedom were deployed at 09:10 UTC. EGG was deployed at 09:20 UTC. AOBA-Velox 3 was deployed at 10:40 UTC. TUPOD was deployed at 10:50 UTC.
The JSpOC published the first TLE sets two days after the launch and assigned preliminary IDs to the new cubesats. Detailed doppler measurements show that some of these IDs are not correct: ITF 2 is object 41932, 1998-067KU AOBA-Velox 3 is object 41935, 1998-067KX TUPOD is object 41931, 1998-067KT.
Around 22:00 UTC on 2017-01-19 the first ever Tubesats were deployed into orbit from the cubesat TUPOD, i.e. Tancredo 1 (Brazil) and OSNSAT (USA). Tancredo 1 is still close to TUPOD, so for the time being TUPOD's TLE set can be used to track this Tubesat.
73, Nico PA0DLO
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