The NORAD Cat ID's for the following satellites have been reversed in this
week's updated AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution:
SPOC - NORAD Cat ID 46921.
Bobcat-1 - NORAD Cat ID 46922.
I missed a revision which reversed the NORAD Cat ID's (and TLEs) associated
with these two satellites.
Available data suggests that RadFxSat-2 is OBJECT M from the Virgin Orbit
LauncherOne 1-19-21 launch, NORAD ID 47320, international designation
21-002M. Therefore,
The following satellite has been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE
Distribution:
RadFxSat-2 - NORAD Cat ID 47320.
Thanks to Brad Schumacher, W5SAT for his report copying RadFxSat-2 and AMSAT
Engineering Ops for the confirmation.
The following satellite has also been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE
Distribution:
OBJECT N - NORAD Cat ID 47345.
This object was part of the Virgin Orbit LauncherOne Demo 2 launch of
January 19, 2021.
Object N was initially given the wrong launch date but that date was later
corrected to
1-19-2021.
On January 19, 2021 at about 22:28 UTC Virgin Orbit LauncherOne Demo 2
placed 11 new satellites into orbit. AMSAT's RadFxSat-2 was among the 11 new
satellites. The following is a summary of identified and not yet identified
satellites from that launch as the date of this email.
So far, the following satellites have been identified and added to this
week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution:
CAPE 3 - Cat ID 47309
MiTEE 1 - Cat ID 47314
ExoCube 2 - Cat ID 47319
Thanks to Nico Janssen (PA0DLO), Alan Biddle (WA4SCA), and SatNogs for the
above IDs.
The object Cat ID 47316 is the Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket body and has
not been added.
The following are unidentified satellites that have been added to this
week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution:
OBJECT B - Cat ID 47310
OBJECT C - Cat ID 47311
OBJECT D - Cat ID 47312
OBJECT E - Cat ID 47313
OBJECT G - Cat ID 47315
OBJECT J - Cat ID 47317
OBJECT K - Cat ID 47318
OBJECT M - Cat ID 47320
Alan Biddle, WA4SCA, notes that the unidentified OBJECTS C, D, and M are in
the center of the pack and are good candidates for being RadFxSat-2.
The following satellite has decayed from orbit and has been removed from
this week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution:
UBAKUSAT - NORAD Cat ID 43467 (Decayed on December 27, 2020 per
Space-Track).