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

[Scott]

Thanks very much for the submission info!  I just emailed my first ELFIN-B
decode from a 29° pass this evening.

73!

-Scott,  K4KDR


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On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Caron <rcaron at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
>