To show you how uncertain this whole thing is---this morning I went to Space-Track and got a set of keps for these birds. Most were dated with "day 304".

Just now, I went for another "fresh" set--they had gone back to "day 303" and when compared to the previous set from early this morning, and all the AOS times are about 2-3 minutes different!

Heh.

73,

Mark N8MH

At 09:25 AM 10/31/2011 -0400, James Cutler wrote:

We suspect RAX-2 to be Object E. Our ground station rotators though are failing so we're having difficulty tracking. Our new Alfa Spids should arrive this week so we can fix.

The Utah team tracked objects B and D and they were able to communicate with their satellites. Since they are using high gain, narrow beam antenna, there is little doubt that these objects are antyhing else.

--Jamie

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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Mark L. Hammond <mailto:marklhammond@gmail.commarklhammond@gmail.com> wrote: Carl,

James Cutler "is" RAX-2...he's the faculty advisor to the students who built it.

The website is most certainly behind, because we are just now getting KEPS via SpaceTrack.

RAX-2 is probably one of the objects C, D, E, F, G listed below--but most likely NOT A, B, or H.

Here they are again--grabbed just now:

OBJECT A 1 37849U 11061A 11302.66421759 +.00000178 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 00099 2 37849 098.7116 238.9909 0001984 118.3667 333.6358 14.22213241000181 OBJECT B 1 37850U 11061B 11302.62545336 +.00000480 +00000-0 +51357-4 0 00069 2 37850 101.6952 233.0228 0253352 289.9995 191.7441 14.77439893000169 OBJECT C 1 37851U 11061C 11302.94063822 +.00148715 +00000-0 +11864-1 0 00048 2 37851 101.7071 233.4846 0255164 289.2247 068.1438 14.77565457000225 OBJECT D 1 37852U 11061D 11302.94064686 +.00001317 +00000-0 +11875-3 0 00172 2 37852 101.7026 233.4847 0255574 288.8425 068.5226 14.77447189000225 OBJECT E 1 37853U 11061E 11302.94060934 +.00035908 +00000-0 +29140-2 0 00036 2 37853 101.6965 233.4869 0254859 289.2129 068.1595 14.77516832000229 OBJECT F 1 37854U 11061F 11303.54982327 .00014649 00000-0 11859-2 0 30 2 37854 101.6986 234.3636 0256120 286.9239 070.4027 14.77691305 296 OBJECT G 1 37855U 11061G 11302.87272701 .00005061 00000-0 41578-3 0 34 2 37855 101.7081 233.4066 0257546 289.0631 068.2617 14.77654712 194 OBJECT H 1 37856U 11061H 11303.53330434 .00817553 77249-5 81830-3 0 44 2 37856 107.3170 237.6855 0390613 329.7694 028.1472 15.39999395 318

Mark N8MH

At 02:18 PM 10/30/2011 -0400, Carl Rimmer W8KRF wrote:

...

None of these are RAX-2. At least, not if the RAX-2 website is right. There are people tracking RAX-2, so would you please share the keps you are using?

Thanks,

========================================================================== Message: 4 Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:59:23 -0400 From: "Mark L. Hammond"<mailto:marklhammond@gmail.commarklhammond@gmail.com> To: James Cutler<mailto:jwcutler@umich.edujwcutler@umich.edu>,mailto:amsat-bb@amsat.orgamsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Keps! new cubesats... Message-ID:<mailto:qnzP1h0094ltuWb05nzQRs@gmail.comqnzP1h0094ltuWb05nzQRs@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Let the lottery begin...

OBJECT C 1 37851U 11061C 11302.87290423 .00363180 00000-0 28380-1 0 23 2 37851 101.7088 233.3889 0254268 289.0505 068.2827 14.77654778 204 OBJECT D No Record OBJECT E 1 37853U 11061E 11302.87289146 .00054233 00000-0 43824-2 0 22 2 37853 101.6952 233.3891 0255073 289.4018 067.9690 14.77521204 207 OBJECT F 1 37854U 11061F 11302.87272970 .00031269 00000-0 25123-2 0 26 2 37854 101.6987 233.3835 0256260 288.7205 068.6394 14.77687338 191 OBJECT G 1 37855U 11061G 11302.87272701 .00005061 00000-0 41578-3 0 34 2 37855 101.7081 233.4066 0257546 289.0631 068.2617 14.77654712 194

Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]

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