All,

First of all I wanted to thank the HAM community all over the world for supporting our project, your support has been incredible and we really value. Today, after a few months of initial operations, we started one of the most exciting phases of our project by separating both of our girls so that they can compute on-orbit real-time relative navigation solutions while both of them are freely drifting from one another. We sent the command to separate them at 16:56:11 CDT and over the next few passes we will be checking to confirm their separation. We will continue to update the satellites' TLEs on our website ( http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/for_radio_operators/users/phpBB3/predictedorbit...) if any of you are interested in tracking them. We really appreciate all of your help so far and we hope that we can continue to count on it.

Thanks again, 73,

Sebastian Munoz (KE5FKV) FASTRAC Student Program Manager