The identification of the 64 satellites launched by SpaceX SSO-A mission on December 3, 2018 continues The spacing between unidentified satellites has grown enough for positive identification of several additional cubesats

Here are some changes to the AMSAT-NA TLE distribution for this week: (1) Per Space-Track MinXSS-2 is now CAT ID 43758 Non-amateur OBJECT 43817 is now listed as SPACEBEE-5 OBJECT 43817 will remain in the TLE Distribution for now and is listed as OBJECT BM

(2) The following additional objects have been identified as non-amateur radio satellites and have been removed from this week's distribution: VESTA-1 - CAT ID 43781 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur) ORBWEAVER 2 - CAT ID 43785 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur) ORBWEAVER 1 - CAT ID 43795 (identified by Space-Track, non-amateur)

(3) The following amateur satellite has decayed and has been removed from the TLE distribution: TSUKUBA (TO-89, Cat ID 41932) - Launched 5-25-2017 by the University of Tsukuba in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan - TO-89 decayed on 1-3-2019

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