The identification of the 64 satellites launched by SpaceX SSO-A mission on
December 3, 2018 STILL continues. The spacing between unidentified
satellites
has grown enough for positive identification of several additional cubesats.
Here are some changes to the AMSAT-NA TLE distribution for this week.
(1) The following satellite has been identified and remains in this week's
TLE Distribution:
MinXSS 2 is CAT ID 43758 per Space-Track. (MinXSS 2 is not transmitting)
(2) The following additional objects have been identified as non-amateur
radio satellites and have been removed from this week's distribution:
HIBER-2 - CAT ID 43774 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
THEA - CAT ID 43796 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
BRIO - CAT ID 43813 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
SPACEBEE-5 - CAT ID 43817 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
(3) The following amateur satellites have been added to this week's TLE
distribution:
Range A is CAT ID 43772. (per CelesTrak)
Range B is CAT ID 43773. (per CelesTrak)
OrigamiSat 1 is CAT ID 43933. (per Nico Janssen, PA0DLO)
NEXUS is CAT ID 43937. (per Nico Janssen, PA0DLO)
The identification of the 64 satellites launched by SpaceX SSO-A mission on
December 3, 2018 continues. The spacing between unidentified satellites has
grown enough for positive identification of several additional cubesats.
Here are some changes to the AMSAT-NA TLE distribution for this week:
(1) Per Space-Track MinXSS-2 is now CAT ID 43758. Non-amateur OBJECT 43817
is now listed as SPACEBEE-5. OBJECT 43817 will remain in the TLE
Distribution for now and is listed as OBJECT BM.
(2) The following additional objects have been identified as non-amateur
radio satellites and have been removed from this week's distribution:
VESTA-1 - CAT ID 43781 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
ORBWEAVER 2 - CAT ID 43785 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
ORBWEAVER 1 - CAT ID 43795 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
(3) The following amateur satellite has decayed and has been removed from
the TLE distribution:
TSUKUBA (TO-89, Cat ID 41932) - Launched 5-25-2017 by the University of
Tsukuba in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan - TO-89 decayed on 1-3-2019.
The identification of the 64 satellites launched by SpaceX SSO-A mission on
December 3, 2018 continues. The spacing between unidentified satellites has
grown enough for positive identification of several additional cubesats.
Here are some changes to the AMSAT-NA TLE distribution for this week:
(1) Per Space-Track EXCITE is now CAT ID 43819. Non-amateur OBJECT 43819 has
been removed from this week's TLE Distribution and CAT ID 43758 has been
returned as unidentified OBJECT A.
(2) Per Space-Track ICEYE-X2 is now CAT ID 43800. Non-amateur OBJECT 43800
has been removed from this week's TLE Distribution and CAT ID 43761 has been
returned as unidentified OBJECT D.
(3) Per Space-Track EuCROPIS is now CAT ID 43807. OBJECT 43807 has been
removed from this week's TLE Distribution. This object was thought to be
MinXSS 2. See Item 4 below.
(4) MinXSS 2 is now CAT ID 43817.
(5) The following object has been identified and added to this week's
distribution:
Lume 1 - CAT ID 43908 (Launched 12-27-2019 by a Soyuz-2 1a Fregat-M launch
vehicle.)
Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO, for Lume 1 update details.
(5) The following additional objects have been identified as non-amateur
radio satellites and have been removed from this week's distribution:
FALCONSAT-6 - CAT ID 43815 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
SPACEBEE-6 - CAT ID 43818 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
FLOCK 3S 2 - NORAD CAT ID 43821 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
The identification of the 64 satellites launched by SpaceX SSO-A mission on
December 3, 2018 continues. The spacing between unidentified satellites has
grown enough for positive identification of several cubesats.
Here are some changes to the AMSAT-NA TLE distribution for this week:
(1) The Space-Track data and detailed doppler analysis confirms that PWSat 2
is in fact OBJECT 43814.
(2) AO 95 is OBJECT 43770.
(3) JO 97 (ex JY1Sat) is OBJECT 43803. The downlink is 145.839085 MHz.
(4) The following object has been identified and added to this week's
distribution:
Astrocast 0.1 - CAT ID 43798 - See
http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=598 for details
per IARU.
(5) The following objects have been identified as non-amateur radio
satellites and have been removed from this week's distribution:
POLAR SCOUT KODIAK - CAT ID 43764 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
AISTechSat 2 - CAT ID 43768 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
FLOCK 3S 1 - NORAD CAT ID 43769 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
CAPELLA-1 - NORAD CAT ID 43791 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
POLAR SCOUT YUKON - CAT ID 43808 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
SPACEBEE-7 - CAT ID 43816 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)
Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO, for this week's update details.
