[amsat-bb] Re: Best Available Information

[Mike Rupprecht]

Hi Paul,

...  those 3 satellites are definitely not operational anymore.

73 Mike
DK3WN


> Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net> hat am 4. September 2013 um 12:08 geschrieben:
>
>
> For NEE-01 Pegasus, the status says "Reported possible collision with space
> junk" and for the other two, the status says "On orbit." The operational
> satellites have a status of "operational," but, yes, it's probably
> confusing to list them under the heading of "operational satellites."
> Perhaps a new part should be added to the Weekly Satellite Report for
> satellites with an unknown status.
>
> It would be nice if the organizations responsible for the satellites
> themselves were to update the worldwide amateur satellite community. No one
> has said a word about TURKSAT-3USAT since days after it's launch.
>
> 73,
>
> Paul, N8HM
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Clint Bradford
> <clintbrad4d at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
> > Just received an email message from one new to working the
> > ham sats. Asked me why he was having trouble accessing / working
> > Pegasus, TurkSat, and PW-Sat.
> >
> > Huh?
> >
> > A weird trio of birds - and as I offered resources to him like the
> > Live OSCAR Status Page and others, I asked him why he was working
> > this trio of birds.
> >
> > Well, he was using our own AMSAT "operational analog amateur
> > satellites" publication.
> >
> > And sonofagun, in today's release, there they are:
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > Part 1 (S1) - operational analog amateur satellites
> > WSR 245 Part 1 09/02/2013
> > ...
> > NEE-01 Pegasus
> > ...
> > TURKSAT-3USAT
> > ...
> > PW-Sat
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Why are these the first three listed in our official
> > "operational analog amateur sats" reference guide?
> >
> > Clint K6LCS
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> > Clint Bradford, K6LCS
> > http://www.clintbradford.com
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