Four new cubesats have been deployed from the ISS on October 6. CUAVA-1 has been identified as NORAD Cat ID 49275. The other three remain to be identified. Therefore, the following satellites have been added to this week's AMSAT TLE Distribution: OBJECT SR - NORAD Cat ID 49272 (To be identified) OBJECT SS - NORAD Cat ID 49273 (To be identified) OBJECT ST - NORAD Cat ID 49274 (To be identified) CUAVA-1 - NORAD Cat ID 49275 Thanks to Space-Track and Celestrak for the identifications.
Additionally, four additional cubesats are waiting suitable weather conditions to be placed in orbit by JAXA Epsilon rocket in Japan. The next opportunity will be Friday morning. The satellites are TeikyoSat-4, Z-Sat, KOSEN-1, and NanoDragon.
The following satellites have decayed from orbit and have been removed from the AMSAT TLE Distribution: Raavana-1 - NORAD Cat ID 44329 (Decay Epoch 10-03-2021) Uguisu - NORAD Cat ID 44330 (Decay Epoch 10-07-2021) NepliSat-1 - NORAD Cat ID 44331 (Decay Epoch 10-03-2021)