[amsat-bb] Accurate Nayif 1 TLE set

[Kevin Elliott]

Hi Nico,

Thanks for this.

For educational purposes, I’d love to read an article from you about how you went about doing that.

Cheers,
Kevin KK6NHN

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 2:00 PM, Nico Janssen <hamsat at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> While waiting for a TLE set for Nayif 1 from the JSpOC, I constructed
> a TLE set based on measurements on a number of passes since launch.
> This set is accurate to within 2 seconds and should remain accurate in
> the coming days.
> 
> NAYIF 1
> 1 60000U 17008XX  17051.92295152  .00001762  00000-0  80428-4 0 9993
> 2 60000  97.5107 113.5513 0006476 260.5747  99.4743 15.22401676 842
> 
> This TLE set can also be downloaded here:
> http://hamsat1.home.xs4all.nl/NAYIF1.txt
> 
> The actual frequency of the telemetry beacon of Nayif 1 is 145.9385 MHz.
> There is virtually no temperature drift on the beacon frequency.
> 
> 73,
> Nico PA0DLO
> 
> 
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