The following satellites have been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE
Distribution:
RSP-01 - NORAD Cat ID 47925 (Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO).
TAUSAT-1 - NORAD Cat ID 47926 (Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO).
Tsuru - NORAD Cat ID 47927 (Thanks to Celestrak).
STARS-EC - NORAD Cat ID 47928 (Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO).
The following satellite has been added BACK to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE
Distribution:
Delfi-N3xt - NORAD Cat ID 39428.
This satellite has come back to life after seven years of silence. (Remember
AO-07 coming back after 21 years of silence?)
Thanks to AMSAT News Service Bulletin 073 (Mark Johns, K0JM) for this very
good news.
The following satellite has decayed from orbit and has been removed from
this week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution:
Delphini - NORAD Cat ID 44030 (Decayed 3-14-2021 per Space-Track).
(I am pretty sure it won't come back!)
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager
Get the right year Ray!
I am pleased to announce that AMSAT-NA's request to re-distribute TLE
elements from Space-Track website has been approved for the period April 1,
2021 to April 1, 2022. Our ODR (Orbital Data Request) to distribute the
Space-Track TLEs was approved by Air Force 18 SPCS, Vandenburg AFB on March
12, 2021.
Thanks to Air Force 18 SPCS, Perry Klein (W3PK), Paul Stoetzer (W3PK) and
Joe Fitzgerald (KM1P) for their help in this yearly process.
We are "good to go" for another year.
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager
I am pleased to announce that AMSAT-NA's request to re-distribute TLE
elements from Space-Track website has been approved for the period April 1,
2021 to April 1, 2022. Our ODR (Orbital Data Request) to distribute the
Space-Track TLEs was approved by Air Force 18 SPCS, Vandenburg AFB on March
12, 2021.
Thanks to Air Force 18 SPCS, Perry Klein (W3PK), Paul Stoetzer (W3PK) and
Joe Fitzgerald (KM1P) for their help in this yearly process.
We are "good to go" for another year.
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager
Sorry for the extra lines in the first distribution of this week's TLE.
I am moving to a new computer system and I missed setting my upload to plain
text in my process.
The second distribution appears to have corrected that error.
I will certainly NOT forget that step next week!
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager
The following satellite has decayed from orbit and has been removed from
this week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution:
TW-1C - NORAD Cat ID 40926 (Decayed 2-27-2021 per Space-Track).