LilacSat-1 has been designated LilacSat-OSCAR-90 or LO-90 per OSCAR Number
Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO.
India Launches 40th PSLV Rocket With 31 Satellites On-board
Launching on its 40th flight, the PSLV rocketed away from the Satish Dhawan
Space Center, a facility nestled on Sriharikota Island on India's east
coast, at 0359 GMT Friday (11:59 p.m. EDT Thursday). The 144-foot-tall
(44-meter) launcher thundered into a mostly sunny sky over the launch base,
where liftoff occurred at 9:29 a.m. local time. See AMSAT News Service
176.01 dated 6-25-2017 for details at
http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/ans/2017/000971.html
Of the 31 satellites launched (plus the launch vehicle makes 32) there are
15 satellites with amateur frequency downlinks as follows:
Max Valier Satellite 145.860 MHz
Venta 1 437.325 MHz
Pegasus 436.670 MHz
NUDTSat 436.270 MHz
VZLUSAT 1 437.240 MHz
DragSail-CubeSat 437.300 MHz, 2403 MHz, and 2405-2445 MHz
UCLSat 435.975 MHz
InflateSail 436.060 MHz
URSA MAIOR 435.950 MHz
LithuanicaSAT 2 437.265 MHz
SUCHAI 1 437.225 MHz
Aalto 1 437.220 MHz and 2402.00 MHz
Robusta 1B 437.325 MHz
D-Sat 437.505 MHz
skCUBE 437.100 MHz and 2401 MHz
The "cloud" of 32 objects is too close together to identify individuals so
we will have to wait for them to separate a bit. There are so many that
SpaceTrack had to use two letter designations (AA, AB, etc.) to specify all
of them. Thus 32 new TLEs NORAD CAT ID 42765 through 42796 have been added
this week. (Note: SpaceTrack does not use "I" or "O" in their SATNAMEs
presumably to avoid confusion with "1" and "0".)
Thanks to AMSAT News Service (ANS) for info.
>From Nico Janssen, PA0DLO:
> Detailed doppler measurements show that CAS 4A is object 42761,
> 2017-034D, and that CAS 4B is object 42759, 2017-034B.
>
> Note that CAS 4A is also known as ZHUHAY-1 01 and as OVS 1A,
> and that CAS 4B is also known as ZHUHAY-1 02 and as OVS 1B.
>
> Note that the IDs for CAS 4A and CAS 4B at Space-Track.org and
> at Celestrak are currently not correct.
Therefore last week's Object A (42758) and Object C (42760) have been
dropped.
Objects B and D have been renamed as follows:
CAS-4B (NORAD CAT ID 42759).
CAS-4A (NORAD CAT ID 42761).
Also per Nico, the following QB50 objects have been positively identified:
QB50 Challenger is NORAD CAT ID 42721.
QB50 UNSW-EC0 is NORAD CAT ID 42723.
This week's KEP Distribution will reflect these changes.
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
Orbital Elements Manager
ITF-2 is now Tsukuba-OSCAR 89 or TO-89 per Bill Tynan, W3XO, OSCAR Number
Administrator.
CAS-4A/OVS-1A and CAS-4B/OVS-1B where launched today (06-15-2017) at 03:00
GMT from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center of China using a CZ-4B launch
vehicle. See amsat-bb email below from Alan Kung, BA1DU. Nico Janssen,
PA0DLO notes that these two new satellites are two of the four NORAD ID CAT
42578-42761. For now the 06-15-2017 AMSAT-NA KEP Distribution list them as
follows:
Name NORAD CAT ID
Object A 42758
Object B 42759
Object C 42760
Object D 42761
More later as these objects separate and are identified.
> -----Original Message----- From: Alan Kung
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 1:54 AM
> To: amsat-bb(a)AMSAT.Org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] CAMSAT CAS-4A and CAS-4B launched today
>
> CAS-4A and CAS-4B Satellites from CAMSAT Launched today
>
>
> Two CAMSAT's armature radio payloads piggybacked on the optical remote
> sensing micro-satellites OVS-1A and OVS-1B have been launched at
> 11:00BJT on June 15, 2017 at The Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center of
> China, using CZ-4B launch vehicle. The primary of this launch is a
> hard X-ray modulation telescope satellite (HXMT).
>
>
> ? Satellite Name: CAS-4A/OVS-1A
> ? Architecture: Micro-satellite
> ? Dimensions: 494Lx499Wx630H mm
> ? Mass: 55kg
> ? Stabilization: three-axis stabilization system with its +Y surface
> facing the earth
> ? Primary Payload: optical Camera with 1.98m resolution
> ? Orbit:
> ? Orbit type : Sun synchronization orbit
> ? Apogee : 524km
> ? Inclination : 43º
> ? Period : 95.1min
>
>
> ? Amateur Radio Payload:
> ? Call sign: BJ1SK
> ? VHF Antenna: one 1/4? monopole antenna with max.0dBi gain is located
> at +Z side
> ? UHF Antenna: one 1/4? monopole antenna with max.0dBi gain is located
> at -Z side
> ? CW Telemetry Beacon: 145.855MHz 17dBm
> ? AX.25 4.8k Baud GMSK Telemetry: 145.835MHz 20dBm
> ? U/V Linear Transponder Downlink: 145.870MHz 20dBm,
> 20kHz, Inverted
> ? U/V Linear Transponder Uplink: 435.220MHz
>
>
>
>
> ? Satellite Name: CAS-4B/OVS-1B
> ? Architecture: Micro-satellite
> ?Dimensions: 494Lx499Wx630H mm
> ?Mass: 55kg
> ? Stabilization: three-axis stabilization system with its +Y surface
> facing the earth
> ? Primary Payload: optical Camera with 1.98m resolution
> ?Orbit:
> ? Orbit type : Sun synchronization orbit
> ? Apogee : 524km
> ? Inclination : 43º
> ? Period : 95.1min
>
>
> ?Amateur Radio Payload:
> ? Call sign: BJ1SL
> ? VHF Antenna: one 1/4? monopole antenna with max.0dBi gain is located
> at +Z side
> ? UHF Antenna: one 1/4? monopole antenna with max.0dBi gain is located
> at -Z side
> ? CW Telemetry Beacon: 145.910MHz 17dBm
> ? AX.25 4.8k Baud GMSK Telemetry: 145.890MHz 20dBm
> ?U/V Linear Transponder Downlink: 145.925MHz 20dBm, 20kHz,
> Inverted
> ?U/V Linear Transponder Uplink: 435.280MHz
>
>
> 73!
> Alan Kung, BA1DU
> _______________________________________________
Please disregard my first email 6/8/2017 at 10:49pm of the KEP distribution
for this week The phone rang,I got out of my sequence, and I left out
NO-83, NO-84 and AO-85.
The corrected distribution is the second email dated 6/8/2017 at about
13:30pm.
Sorry.