[amsat-bb] Cubesats launch and IDs

[Nico Janssen]

All,

As witnessed by Mike, DK3WM, the TLE sets of some of the Cubesats from
this launch have been cross-tagged a couple of days ago. TuPOD is now
object 41936, 1998-067KY. Probably Tancredo 1 is now 41931, 1998-067KT,
and OSNSAT is 41939, 1998-067KZ. I informed Kelso and he has now
updated CelesTrak. Unfortunately Space-Track is still using the IDs that
they originally guessed.

TuPOD's batteries are empty so the satellite is not transmitting anymore.
Also Tancredo 1 does not seem to transmit anymore, at least not when
in eclipse. As far as I know, Waseda-Sat 3 never transmitted any signals.

73,
Nico PA0DLO


On 21-01-17 14:29, Nico Janssen wrote:
> All,
>
> Apparently the Tubesat deployment from TuPOD on 2017-01-19 was
> around 23:30 UTC (so not around 22:00 UTC).
>
> Either Tancredo 1 or OSNSAT is now tracked by the JSpOC as object
> 41936, 1998-067KY. (There is a typo in the TLE set: '16067KY' should
> read '98067KY'.)
>
> 73,
> Nico PA0DLO
>
>
> On 20-01-17 16:03, Nico Janssen wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Last Monday 2017-01-16 six cubesats were launched from the Japanese
>> Kibo module of the ISS, using the J-SSOD cubesat deployer.
>>
>> ITF 2, Waseda-sat 3 and Freedom were deployed at 09:10 UTC. EGG was
>> deployed at 09:20 UTC. AOBA-Velox 3 was deployed at 10:40 UTC. TUPOD
>> was deployed at 10:50 UTC.
>>
>> The JSpOC published the first TLE sets two days after the launch and
>> assigned preliminary IDs to the new cubesats. Detailed doppler
>> measurements show that some of these IDs are not correct:
>>    ITF 2 is object 41932, 1998-067KU
>>    AOBA-Velox 3 is object 41935, 1998-067KX
>>    TUPOD is object 41931, 1998-067KT.
>>
>> Around 22:00 UTC on 2017-01-19 the first ever Tubesats were deployed 
>> into
>> orbit from the cubesat TUPOD, i.e. Tancredo 1 (Brazil) and OSNSAT (USA).
>> Tancredo 1 is still close to TUPOD, so for the time being TUPOD's TLE 
>> set
>> can be used to track this Tubesat.
>>
>> 73,
>> Nico PA0DLO
>>
>>
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