Hi Thomas, Thank you. I've got it all sorted out now. In fact, I suspect that which Amsat-UK have on the video as X-3 may well have been an Orbcomm satellite on 137.560Mhz ... but I may be wrong ... I havn't gotten around to checking the TLM yet.

I have the Orbcomm software so it should be easy to compare. I put the X-3 keps into NOVA and InstantTRACK so it will be relatively easy to check - when I have time.

Thanks again for the X-3 keps.

73 John. la2qaa@amsat.org

To: eu-amsat@yahoogroups.com From: th.frey@vtxmail.ch Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:05:59 +0100 Subject: Re: [eu-amsat] A lot! of felines ... or ... Cat: Nr: 05580

John Hackett schrieb:

Hello Folks,

             Does anyone know where I might obtain keps for object 

nr: 1973 583A, catalogue nr: 05580 ??.

Hello John

Here is your set:

1 05580U 71093A 08035.91733844 .00000129 00000-0 24102-4 0 7288

2 05580 082.0434 342.4015 0548957 143.7064 220.2679 13.89539227815329

But the object nr. doesn't match !

My first shot was Celestrak but the page refused to accept the

previous password it used to.

(There is no facility for 'remembering' an old password).

It's simply too much faffing around creating a new identity.

Any suggestions and I'd be most grateful.

At Celestrak you don't need a password.

This is the first 100% British satellite launched 35 years ago.

There's a video on the Amsat-UK website showing that it's still

transmitting.

It was also known as Prospero X-3.

USELESS INFORMATION DEPT:

Prospero? ... Aye!, the Duke of Milan in William Shakespeare's ... '

The Tempest' ... read the play and you'll understand why the satellite

was christened thus.

73 John. la2qaa@amsat.org

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From: archie.hackett@hotmai l.com

To: g7hia@btinternet.com

CC: john@manchester.ac.uk; allan_gm1sxx@hotmail.com

Subject: Cat: Nr: 05580

Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:28:29 +0100

Hello John,

                Re: the Prospero X-3 satellite.

It's object nr: 1973 583A, catalogue nr: 05580.

I've listened to the Amsat-UK website audio recording and noted

the frequency as 137.560 WFM ... but I can't find any keps anywhere!.

Any ideas where I might find current keps ??.

I tried the CelestTRACK website but it refuses to accept my

password since I last checked in a year ago.

The Wikipedia page noters that it was decomissioned long ago but

that it's still transmitting ... with an estimated life of 100 years.

Interesting power situation there ... nuclear based ??.

If I could find the keps I could have a listen. Any other 'secret'

info ??.

73 John 2     <la2qaa@amsat.org>

Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Regards, 73

Thomas Frey, HB9SKA

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