[amsat-bb] Zhuhai-0 1 and 2 tle inversion ?

Jean-Pierre Godet godetj at wanadoo.fr
Tue Jun 20 14:25:32 UTC 2017


   I appologize...

   Nico PA0DLO reminded me the post he sents on Sunday 18th 12:25 about 
the two tle inverted in SpaceTrack and Celestrak.

   73 !

   Jean-Pierre F5YG

On 20/06/2017 10:11, Jean-Pierre Godet wrote:
>    Hi my friends,
> 
>    I'm afraid I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the catalog number, 
> therefore the tle of Zhuhai-1 1 (CAS-4A) and Zhuhai-1 2 (CAS-4B) are 
> maybe inverted.
>    Listening the CW beacon, the Doppler shift correction with fresh tle 
> for Zhuhai-1 2 (CAS-4B) seems correct, but for his brother nr 1 
> (CAS-4A), it looks like the bird is a bit ahead the prediction : at the 
> beginning of the pass we have to decrease manually the frequency to 
> chase the bird, at about the half of the pass it's the opposite, we have 
> to hold a little bit the frequency shift correction.
> 
>    No ?
> 
>    Have a nice day all !
> 
>    J-P F5YG


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