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India Launches 40th PSLV Rocket With 31 Satellites On-board

Launching on its 40th flight, the PSLV rocketed away from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, a facility nestled on Sriharikota Island on India's east coast, at 0359 GMT Friday (11:59 p m EDT Thursday) The 144-foot-tall (44-meter) launcher thundered into a mostly sunny sky over the launch base, where liftoff occurred at 9:29 a m local time See AMSAT News Service 176 01 dated 6-25-2017 for details at

http://www amsat org/pipermail/ans/2017/000971 html

Of the 31 satellites launched (plus the launch vehicle makes 32) there are 15 satellites with amateur frequency downlinks as follows:

Max Valier Satellite 145 860 MHz Venta 1 437 325 MHz Pegasus 436 670 MHz NUDTSat 436 270 MHz VZLUSAT 1 437 240 MHz DragSail-CubeSat 437 300 MHz, 2403 MHz, and 2405-2445 MHz UCLSat 435 975 MHz InflateSail 436 060 MHz URSA MAIOR 435 950 MHz LithuanicaSAT 2 437 265 MHz SUCHAI 1 437 225 MHz Aalto 1 437 220 MHz and 2402 00 MHz Robusta 1B 437 325 MHz D-Sat 437 505 MHz skCUBE 437 100 MHz and 2401 MHz

The "cloud" of 32 objects is too close together to identify individuals so we will have to wait for them to separate a bit There are so many that SpaceTrack had to use two letter designations (AA, AB, etc ) to specify all of them Thus 32 new TLEs NORAD CAT ID 42765 through 42796 have been added this week (Note: SpaceTrack does not use "I" or "O" in their SATNAMEs presumably to avoid confusion with "1" and "0" )

Thanks to AMSAT News Service (ANS) for info

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