The following satellites have decayed from orbit and have been removed from
this week's AMSAT-NA TLE distribution:
Falconsat-3 NORAD Cat ID 30776 (decayed from orbit on 01/21/23 per
Space-Track).
JAGSAT NORAD Cat ID 53771 (decayed from orbit on 01/23/23 per
Space-Track).
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager
At the request of CAMSAT and the XW-4 (CAS-10) team, AMSAT has designated
the
satellite as Hope-OSCAR 119 (HO-119) as of January 1, 2023. For details, see
Drew
Glasbrenner, KO4MA and OSCAR Number Administrator's announcement entitled
"OSCAR number assigned for CAS-10" in AMSAT News Service Bulletin ANS-001
(dated January 1, 2023).
Therefore, the following satellite has been renamed in this week's AMSAT-NA
TLE distribution as follows:
HO-119 NORAD Cat ID 54816. (Formally CAS-10).
The following satellite has decayed from orbit and has been removed from
this week's AMSAT-NA TLE distribution as follows:
TW-1A NORAD Cat ID 40928. (decayed from orbit on 12/29/22 per Space-Track).
Finally,
AMSAT is pleased to announce the new daily two line element bulletin
available at https://www.amsat.org/tle/current/daily-bulletin.txt. Members
of the Sci-Tech Radio Society (STARS) have worked with AMSAT Information
Technology to automate this process. Seventeen year old STARS member Ryan
"RJ" Fitzgerald N1BGA enjoyed exercising skills he learned in his high
school computer science class. "It was cool to do something for the real
world beyond just homework assignments, plus it forced me to learn stuff not
covered in class" said Fitzgerald.
STARS is part of New England Sci-Tech - a non-profit STEM education center
and makerspace dedicated to project-based, hands-on learning for youth and
families across the New England community with a strong Amateur Radio focus.
Visit www.nescitech.org for details. Thanks to Joe Fitzgerald, KM1P, for
this update on this new innovative approach to AMSAT TLE distribution.
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager
The following satellite has been removed from this week's AMSAT-NA TLE
distribution:
MYSat 1 NORAD Cat ID 44045 (Decayed from orbit 12/16/2022 per SpaceTrack).
Ray Hoad
WA5QGD
AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager