dl7ndr
January 2, 2026, 1:46pm
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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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PE0SAT
January 2, 2026, 2:16pm
62
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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dh1ok
January 2, 2026, 6:39pm
63
Hi Daniel,
thanks for the clarification. I was not sure with this satellite, from this side my answer goes to the experts
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dh1ok
January 2, 2026, 6:42pm
64
Thank you Jan for the explanation. I was wondering with this two NoradIDās and names, but i didnāt find the reason for it.