[amsat-bb] Re: Cal Poly Satellite Keps error!

[Colin Hurst]

Alan,
I have just checked both Celestrak and Space-Track and they are both
showing Object 31132 as CP4. That's not to say the elements have not been
assigned correctly to their respective objects.
Recent work with Cute1.7 + APDII and IO-26 suggests you have to be careful
at times, as objects do get "swapped" from time to time.
There were a swag of Cubesats on that launch.
Colin VK5HI.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org]On
> Behalf Of Alan P. Biddle
> Sent: Friday, 25 July 2008 1:28 PM
> To: 'Jason Anderson'; amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Cal Poly Satellite Keps error!
>
>
> In trying to copy CP4, I noticed that there is a discrepancy in the Keps
> being distributed.  Jason's Keps give the object number as
> 31132.  You get
> this from Space-Track, and it seems to give a good agreement.
> However, the
> Celestrak and those distributed by AMSAT give the object number as 31122.
> Close, but off enough that it makes automatic tracking nearly impossible.
> So when you do an automatic update of your Keps, be certain to go back in
> and put in the correct object.
>
> Alan
> WA4SCA
>
>
>
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