Changes to AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution for January 21, 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.
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