We have chosen to use the NORAD ID 40654 as the object number for PSAT. NORAD ID 40654 is labeled as PSAT in the SpaceTrack website where we get all the rest of the our Keplerian elements for other satellites in TLE format. We have chosen to follow SpaceTrack's lead to avoid confusion in the future.
Note ... because PSAT was launched on a military rocket flight, we cannot get the TLEs directly from SpaceTrack. We can get them from the satellite owner/operator. This is how we acquire the TLEs for PSAT and BRICSat each week. But the owner/operator, in many cases, does not try to sort out who is who on a launch with multiple cubesats. The TLEs we get from the owner/operator are not labeled as BRICsat and PSAT, so we rely on our own amateur community (Nico Janssen, PA0DLO and others) to sort the list of TLEs out for us and to verify who is who.
Ray Hoad WA5QGD
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Joe Fitzgerald Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:44 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Can't digipeat APRS thru satellites
On 7/15/2015 7:37 PM, Ted wrote:
What is the proper object number for NO-84, please
40654
-Joe KM1P
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