The following satellites have been dropped from this week's KEP
distribution:
KWANGMYSONGSONG4 - NORAD CAT ID #41332(has not produced a signal after
entering orbit)
OBJECT D - NORAD CAT ID #41340 (not ChubuSat-2 or CubuSat-3) See below.
For now the NORAD CAT IDs for ChubuSat-2 or CubuSat-3 will be as follows:
ChubuSat-2 - NORAD CAT ID 41338
ChubuSat-3 - NORAD CAT ID 41339
I reserve the right to change the NORAD CAT ID if I have these backwards.
The following satellites have been added to this week's distribution:
OBJECT B - NORAD CAT ID 41338
OBJECT C - NORAD CAT ID 41339
OBJECT D - NORAD CAT ID 41340
Two of these objects are the as yet unidentified CHUBUSAT-2 and CHUBUSAT-3
Japanese satellites.
The following satellites have been added to this week's KEP Distribution
AGGIESAT4 - NORAD ID # 41313
KWANGMYONGSONG4 - NORAD ID # 41332
The North Korean KWANGMYONGSONG4, NORAD ID # 41332, (also known as DPRK
Brilliant Star) has achieved a stable orbit, but has so far remained silent.
We will continue to include the TLEs for this satellite for the time being.
See
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-satellite-orbit-idUSKCN0VI1XN
for more info.
The launch of ChubuSat-2 and ChubuSat-3 is postponed due to weather issues.
No new launch date has been set.
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
Below is the TLE for AGGIESAT4
1 41313U 98067HP 16035.86536833 .00019080 00000-0 28946-3 0 9999
2 41313 51.6454 2.8905 0006899 78.5036 281.6745 15.54610038 954
I intended this to be in the orb16035.2l.amsat distribtuion but it didn't
make it. I will fix that next week.
The following satellite has been added:
AGGIESAT4 NORAD Cat ID = 41313 (This is the current consensus of the
AGGIESAT Team)
The following satellite has been renamed to its OSCAR number:
AUBIESAT is now AO-71.
The following satellites have been dropped from the AMSAT Distribution
because
they are no longer functioning or they have de-orbited:
Satellite NORAD Cat ID
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SO-33 25509
AO-16 20439
AO-51 28375
CP3 31129
SOHLA-1 33496
STUDSAT 36801
CUBEBUG-1 39153
ESTCUBE-1 39161
OKEAN-4 23317
NOAA-14 23455
RESURS 25394
FENGYUN1 25730
OKEAN-0 25860
NOAA-16 26536
NOAA-17 27453
FALCON 30776
MAST 31126
COMPASS 32787
METEOR-M 35865
RS-38 35869
RAX-2 37853
PROITERES 38756
DELFIN3XT 39428
PUCPSAT-1 39442
POPSAT-HP1 40028
TSUBAME 40302
LAMBDA-SAT 40458 (de-orbit 5-16-15)