Beesat-4 re-entry

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This is a thread to track Beesat-4 re-entry.

From the latest observations here is a TLE generated:

BEESAT-4
1 41619U          23265.58333000  .00000000  00000-0  15660-2 0    04
2 41619  97.1257 318.0038 0009184   6.7185 315.1304 16.26396441    05

beesat-4_265.dat (2.8 KB)
sites.txt (3.2 KB)

The TLE is not that accurate as it is based on 4 different stations observations. We expect in the next hours to have something more accurate.

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New TLE set:

BEESAT-4
1 41619U          23266.45530000  .00000000  00000-0  22365-3 0    01
2 41619  97.1197 318.1370 0017252 279.9060 132.4261 16.50310994    07

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beesat-4_266.dat (3.0 KB)
sites.txt (3.3 KB)

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Hi everyone,
now it has been over a year since BEESAT-4 re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. We presented our analysis of the BEESAT-2/-3/-4 re-entries at this years 4S symposium titled “Lessons Learned from Operating Three CubeSats until Their Consecutive Re-Entries” and recently we made the paper publicly available [1]. Additionally my colleague Anton Große Siestrup and I will present the findings from all our BEESAT re-entry campaigns in this month’s edition of NASA Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institutes (S3VI) “Small Spacecraft Community of Practice” webinar. The webinar will be streamed online on the coming Wednesday, 13th November at 10:00 PST / 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET and is titled “Lessons Learned from Executing End-of-Life Operations with 4 CubeSats until their Consecutive Re-Entries (BEESAT-2/-3/-4/-9)”. More information can be found on the S3VI website [2].

Webinar details:
:spiral_calendar: When: Wednesday, 13th November at 10:00 PST / 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET
:round_pushpin: Where: Microsoft Teams, link / meeting details will be available on the website and shared as a comment to this post

Links:
[1] BEESAT-2/-3/-4 re-entry paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383860366_Lessons_Learned_from_Operating_Three_CubeSats_until_Their_Consecutive_Re-Entries
[2] S3VI webinar: https://www.nasa.gov/smallsat-institute/community-of-practice/lessons-learned-from-executing-end-of-life-operations-with-4-cubesats/

Again many thanks for all your support during these campaigns,
Julian

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The webinar will be stream on Microsoft Teams with the following login details:
Link: Microsoft Teams Meeting
Meeting ID: 242 271 510 60
Passcode: jhZ3Uu

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