[amsat-bb] Keps Question from Rocket Lab launch

Wendy and Terry Osborne wandtosborne at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 02:57:14 UTC 2018


Hi Folks,

I have found a set of Keps from yesterday’s Rocket Lab launch.

2018-010A               
1 43163U 18010A   18021.87397025  .00000319 -10052-5  00000+0 0  9996
2 43163  82.9164 138.6720 0176456 219.4667 139.3657 15.51933178   120
2018-010B               
1 43164U 18010B   18021.89134907  .00000035  00000-0  00000+0 0  9998
2 43164  82.9271 138.6991 0029255 248.8502 110.7671 15.17838339   122
2018-010C               
1 43165U 18010C   18021.95720165  .00000036  00000-0  00000+0 0  9994
2 43165  82.9208 138.6356 0031890 240.7480 118.8502 15.17897039   137
2018-010D               
1 43166U 18010D   18021.93802473  .00000320 -10083-5  00000+0 0  9990
2 43166  82.9232 138.6174 0172791 220.0084 138.7693 15.52599809   135
2018-010E               
1 43167U 18010E   18021.89220116  .00000035  00000-0  00000+0 0  9999
2 43167  82.9254 138.6995 0024458 245.8147 114.0537 15.16199901   124
2018-010F               
1 43168U 18010F   18021.87420109  .00000318 -10038-5  00000+0 0  9994
2 43168  82.9247 138.6716 0176956 220.2187 138.6723 15.51608672   128

They appear to be in 2 groups.
2018-010A, 2018-010D and 2018-010F are close together.
Similarly 2018-010B, 2018-010C and 2018-010E are close together.

I suspect that A,D and F are the satellites and B,C and E are the Rocket body and debris.
Is there any way of confirming which is which?

Or does anyone have the downlink frequencies for Dove Pioneer or Lemur-2?

73,

Terry ZL2BAC 



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