[amsat-bb] Keps Question from Rocket Lab launch

[Dave Hartzell]

Looks like 2018-010D is the best fit (now) for Humanity Star....

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 7:57 PM, Wendy and Terry Osborne <
wandtosborne at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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