[amsat-bb] AO-85 Celestrak TLE

Jerry Buxton n0jy at amsat.org
Thu Dec 31 06:11:47 UTC 2015


It is true, having been launched on a classified mission the TLEs for
AO-85 are only available to a few of us at AMSAT.  So the AMSAT-provided
Keplerian elements are the only ones that contain them.

Jerry Buxton, NØJY

On 12/30/2015 23:01, Nitin Muttin wrote:
> What I understand is that the keps are not available as the satellite was launched using a military rocket.You will have to manually copy from
> http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all
>  73
> Nitin [VU3TYG] 
>
>     On Thursday, 31 December 2015 10:27 AM, Frank Westphal <k6fw1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>  
>
>  I use an IOS satellite tracking program called SatExpPro which downloads 
> the TLE's from Celestrak.  I can't find the TLE's for AO-85 at the 
> Celestrak site.  Does the Celestrak site use a different name for 
> AO-85?  There is no listing for Fox either.  The SatExpPro program does 
> not allow for the downloading of the TLE's from the AMSAT site which has 
> the TLE's for AO-85.
>
> I use SatPC32 on my desktop and download the TLE's from the AMSAT site 
> for AO-85.  Is there a reason that the Celestrak site would not host the 
> TLE's for AO-85?
>
> Thanks for any help in solving this mystery.
>
> 73,
> Frank
> K6FW
>
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