Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2879 Issue Time: 2018 Dec 10 2026 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2018 Dec 10 2010 UTC Station: GOES-15 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscr ...Continue Reading

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-343 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor- mation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space including reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio satellites. The news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur Radio in Spac ...Continue Reading

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-341.02 In this Special Bulletin: * JY1Sat now Jordan-OSCAR 97 (JO-97) SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-341.02 ANS-341.02 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin JY1Sat now          Jordan-OSCAR 97 (JO-97) AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 341.02 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD DATE December 7, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-341.02 On December 3rd, 2018, JY1Sat was launched on a Falcon 9 vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Part of ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB18341.N 2Line Orbital Elements 18341.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX December 7, 2018 BID: ORB18341.N DECODE 2-LINE ELSETS WITH THE FOLLOWING KEY: 1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ 2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM TO ALL RA ...Continue Reading

Things have changed. (This should be no surprise!) Space-Track has listed new TLEs for the SpaceX Falcon 9 SSO-A 12-03-2018 launch. Note that some satellites have different NORAD CAT IDs and new CAT IDs have been added. The TLEs associated with SpaceX Falcon 9 SSO-A launch are as follows: OBJECT A - NORAD CAT ID 43758 JY1Sat - NORAD CAT ID 43759 OBJECT C - NORAD CAT ID 43760 OBJECT D - NORAD CAT ID 43761 OBJECT E - NORAD CAT ID 43762 ESEO - NORAD CAT ID 43763 OBJECT G - NORAD CAT ID 43764 OBJECT H - NORAD CAT ID 43 ...Continue Reading

Standby ... Everything has changed again! Don't bother with adding the three missing satellites. I going to issue new AMSAT-NA TLEs today. Ray Hoad WA5QGD AMSAT-NA Orbital Elements Manager _______________________________________________ Via the Keps mailing list courtesy of AMSAT-NA http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/keps ...Continue Reading

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-341.01 In this Special Bulletin: * ExseedSat Granted VO-96 OSCAR Number SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-341.01 ANS-341 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin ExseedSat Granted       VO-96 OSCAR Number AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin 341.01 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD DATE December 7, 2018 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-341.01 On December 3rd, 2018, ExseedSat was launched on a Falcon 9 vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Part of Spaceflight's ...Continue Reading

Sorry. I got in a big hurry this week and skipped one of my steps in creating the AMSAT-NA Weekly TLE distribution. I accidently left out the following three satellites: NO-84 1 40654U 15025D 18339.49856773 .00007158 00000-0 11154-3 0 04772 2 40654 054.9912 340.7717 0148399 184.7624 175.1984 15.43615131082270 NO-83 1 40655U 15025E 18339.30540334 .00023709 00000-0 19942-3 0 05624 2 40655 054.9727 262.3556 0084044 230.8901 128.4656 15.65212602083001 AO-85 1 40967U 15058D 18339.30705202 .00000144 00000-0 ...Continue Reading

SB KEPS @ AMSAT $ORB18340.N 2Line Orbital Elements 18340.AMSAT HR AMSAT ORBITAL ELEMENTS FOR AMATEUR SATELLITES IN NASA FORMAT FROM WA5QGD FORT WORTH,TX December 6, 2018 BID: ORB18340.N DECODE 2-LINE ELSETS WITH THE FOLLOWING KEY: 1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ 2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM TO ALL RA ...Continue Reading

Fox-1Cliff has been renamed AMSAT-OSCAR 95 (AO-95) per ANS Special Bulletin 339.01, December 5, 2018. The following Satellites have been added to this week's AMSAT-NA TLE Distribution. From the India ISRO PSLV-C43 launch on November 29, 2018: FacSat 1 - NORAD CAT ID 43721 Reaktor H W - NORAD CAT ID 43728 (Reaktor Hello World, CAT ID per owner) InnoSat 2 - NORAD CAT ID 43738 3CAT 1 - NORAD CAT ID 43721 (CAT ID per owner) Thanks to Nico Janssen, PA0DLO, for ID's on FactSat 1 and InoSat 2) From the SpaceX Falcon 9 SSO- ...Continue Reading