[amsat-bb] ICESat-2 (ELaNa-XVIII -18) CubeSats freq & TLEs

[Ryan Caron]

Scott & Fredy,

Thanks for your passes so far. ELFIN A & B have been successfully 
demoded and commanded and are healthy. DAVE has passed similar 
milestones. SurfSat sadly does not beacon but I hope to hear good news 
from the UCF team soon. The 2018-070B/C/D/E objects in tle-new.txt are 
pretty great. We expect ELFIN A is the leading-most satellite, and ELFIN 
B is the trailing-most, but of course it is too early to know for sure.

B is in a slightly lower orbit and should overtake A, especially once we 
deploy our magnetometer's stacer boom and get some differential drag 
started (possibly as early as Thursday). We want them to spread apart a 
bit to make our passes easier!

Please send any pass contacts to elfin at igpp.ucla.edu and we'll ingest 
the beacon data into our database. Once we're commissioned and 
collecting science data we are interested in scheduling downlinks over 
any interested stations.

https://elfin.igpp.ucla.edu/listen-to-elfin/

73,

Ryan NX1U


On 9/15/2018 7:04 PM, Scott <scott23192 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Ryan!
>
> Recorded the 2201utc pass over Eastern USA and just reviewed the signals
> from that.
>
> No sign of the others, but good decodes from DAVE (please note correct
> freq. is 437.150); see my tweet w/ pics:
>
> https://twitter.com/scott23192/status/1041118626055680001
>
> 73!
>
> -Scott,  K4KDR