Oscar-52 (VO-52) has been taken out of service. Despite efforts to keep
VO-52 in operation the failing technology of the decade old satellite have
not been successful. VO-52 has been in service over nine years. The Indian
Space Research Organization (ISRO) said that VO-52's lithium-ion batteries
had failed and the satellite was officially decommissioned on July 21st.
VO-52 (Cat # 28650) has been removed from the AMSAT KEPs distribution.
At this time, it is believed that UKcube-1 is one of the following objects:
OBJECT F - 2014-37F - Cat#40074 (added this week)
OBJECT G - 2014-37G - Cat#40075
We await enough separation of these two objects to resolve the identity of
UKcube-1.
Dauria DX 1 has been indentified as 2014-37C, Cat#40071.
Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO for the above identifications.
OBJECT H - 2014-37H - Cat#40076 has been dropped from this weeks AMSAT KEP
distribution.
UKube-1 was successfully launched and deployed 7-8-2014 at 15:58 UTC from a
Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat-M launch vehicle from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The primary
payload was Russia's Meteor-M2 weather satellite.
At this time, it is believed that UKcube-1 is one of the following objects
which have been added to this weeks KEPs:
OBJECT C - 2014-37C - Cat#40071
OBJECT G - 2014-37G - Cat#40075
OBJECT H - 2014-37H - Cat#40076
OBJECT D is in this group, but SpaceTrack currently identifies OBJECT D -
2014-37D - Cat#40072 as SKYSAT-2 (a payload).
As always, this could change. More later.
