ISS Deployment (JAXA) J-SSOD#33 - 2025-10-10 09:50 UTC

It seems pretty likely that e-kagaku-1 never transmitted a signal from orbit.

According to their website the transmissions are (beside CW) AFSK 1k2 and 9k6 GMSK in AX.25.
You would be able to decode those transmissions with the standard SoundModem and HighSpeed-SoundModem.

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The problem is, that the NoradID that belongs to BOTAN 65942 is shows as E-KAGAKU-1 in the space-track TLE

0 E-KAGAKU-1
1 65942U 98067XP  25365.30155815  .00163562  00000-0  14639-2 0  9993
2 65942  51.6280  45.2399 0004190  18.6409 341.4740 15.67293669 12778

And that causes some confusion, so BOTAN is active but is shown as E-KAGAKU-1 but as far as I know there was never E-KAGAKU-1 frame received.

The TLE objects are basically swapped in the space-track catalog.

0 BOTAN
1 65943U 98067XQ  25365.08953584  .00105555  00000-0  11677-2 0  9995
2 65943  51.6301  47.5837 0001855  17.3955 342.7102 15.62184482 12720

The satellites owners should contact space-track and correct this error.

Jan | PE0SAT

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Hi Daniel,

thanks for the clarification. I was not sure with this satellite, from this side my answer goes to the experts :slight_smile:

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Thank you Jan for the explanation. I was wondering with this two NoradID’s and names, but i didn’t find the reason for it.