The following is an update on "who is who" for the May 25th and 26th, 2017
QB50 cubesat deployment from the International Space Station (ISS). Six of
the satellites deployed are QB50 satellites. Therefore, I have re-issued the
AMSAT-NA KEPs for this week. The satellite names and the NORAD Cat IDs per
SpaceTrack are as follows:
UNSW-EC0 Cat ID 42721 (Note:The last character is a "zero" per QB50
website.)
NJUST-1 Cat ID 42722
Challenger Cat ID 42723
DUTHsat Cat ID 42724
LilacSat-1 Cat ID 42725
nSIGHT1 Cat ID 42726
This is what SpaceTrack shows now. There is always the possiblity that we
will need to change something.
The following is an update on "who is who" for the May 17th and 18th, 2017
QB50 cubesat deployment from the International Space Station (ISS). Eleven
of the satellites deployed are QB50 satellites. Not all satellites deployed
are QB50 cubesats with amateur radio capability. The satellite names and the
NORAD Cat IDs per SpaceTrack are as follows:
SOMP 2 Cat ID 42700
HAVELSAT Cat ID 42701
Columbia Cat ID 42702
PHOENIX Cat ID 42706
X-CubeSat Cat ID 42707
qbee Cat ID 42708
ZA-AeroSat 1 Cat ID 42713
LINK Cat ID 42714
UPSat Cat ID 42716
SpaceCube Cat ID 42717
Hoopoe Cat ID 42718
This is what SpaceTrack shows now. There is always the possiblity that we
will need to change something.
LilacSat-1 was deployed today (Thursday, May 25,2017 at 08:45 GMT) from ISS.
It is too close to the ISS to be assigned an object ID. Here are the TLEs
(based on ISS TLEs) from the LilacSat website:
http://lilacsat.hit.edu.cn/?page_id=594
LilacSat-1
1 25544U 98067A 17144.89781703 .00001573 00000-0 31242-4 0 9992
2 25544 51.6416 154.3996 0005308 189.3117 243.1127 15.53923882 58131
Note: The Catalog Number is not real.
The following is a synopsis of several emails from Nico Janssen, PA0DLO:
On May 17th and 18th, 2017 a series of QB50 cubesats were launched from the
International Space Station (ISS). Seventeen satellites launched to date are
as follows:
SOMP 2
HAVELSAT
Columbia (QBUS 4)
SGSat (KySat 3)
CXBN 2
IceCube (Earth 1)
PHOENIX
X-CubeSat
qbee
ALTair 1
SHARC
LINK
ZA-AeroSat 1
CSUNSat 1
UPSat
SpaceCube
Hoopoe
Nine objects (nine TLE sets) have appeared on 18 SPCS (formally called
JSpOC).
Yes, there are more satellites than TLE sets. Probably we will have to wait
for
the objects to separate to find the other nine objects.
I have added those nine TLE sets, objects 42700 thru 42708 to this week's
AMSAT-NA KEPs. The new TLE sets are named QB50-0 thru QB50-8 for now.
Stay tuned for more later.
Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0PLO for the above update.
