CAS-6 was launched as a piggyback satellite on TIANQIN-1 on December 20,
2019 via a CZ-4B launch vehicle from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Still
awaiting a satellite signal, thus the CAT ID has not been positively
identified as yet. More later.
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager
This week's AMSAT TLE distribution reflects the following two satellite name
changes per ANS Bulletin 356.01 dated December 22, 2019:
SMOG-P (Cat. ID 44832) is now MO-105 (Magyar-OSCAR 105) and
ATL-1 (Cat. ID 44830) is now MO-106 (Magyar-OSCAR 106.
(Per Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA AMSAT VP Operations / OSCAR Number
Administrator)
The following Amateur Radio satellite has been added to this week's TLE
distribution:
FloripaSat 1 - NORAD CAT ID 44830 (Taiyuan Space Center launch, 12/20/2019).
(Thanks to Nico Janseen, PA0DLO, for satellite identification.)
The following Amateur Radio satellites have been added to this week's TLE
distribution:
ATL 1 - NORAD CAT ID 44830 (Rocket Lab launch, 12/06/2019).
TRSI-Sat - NORAD CAT ID 44831 (Rocket Lab launch, 12/06/2019).
Duchifat 3 - NORAD CAT ID 44854 (ISRO launch, 12/11/2019).
OPS-SAT - NORAD CAT ID 44878 (ESA launch, 12/18/2019).
Thanks to Nico Janseen, PA0DLO, for satellite identifications.
Note: 1. I am going to use Duchifat 3 as the TLE name. Duchifat 3 is the
name used by the students who built it, per the university website.
2. TRSI-Sat is not transmitting at the present time. I will provide
TLEs until it is determined that it has failed.
The following Amateur Radio satellite has been added to this week's TLE
distribution:
SMOG-P - NORAD CAT ID 44832 (per Nico Janssen, PA0DLO).
The Israeli student satellite Duchifat3 was successfully placed in orbit by
ISRO (India) on December 11, 2019 along with several other satellites.
Therefore, it will take a while for those objects to separate enough to
accurately identify Duchifat3. The following is a set of preliminary TLEs
supplied by Nicholas Mahr, KE8AKW (via AMSAT-BB) on December 12, 2019 for
your use:
Duchifat3
1 84101U 19345.41319444 .00000000 00000-0 50000-4 0 08
2 84101 37.0000 148.0000 0001442 0.0000 140.0000 15.02563222 03
