Thanks for drawing our attention to those objects!
This is our first satellite project, so we are somewhat new to the whole process; its definitely a bit disappointing that its off to a shaky start…
Except of OBJECT YJ which is close but separated from the other objects, all the other are very close, so I’m going to choose OBJECT YN to follow and track for LEOPARDSat-1. This object has common ground-track with the others and the maximum common ground-track with OBJECT YJ, increasing our chance to get signal from LEOPARDSat-1.
Okay I see that we are attached to 69798 now on SatNOGS DB. Just so I’m clear this is not a firm assignment yet, correct?
@blah43695 from your messages I understand that there is any contact/reception from the satellite from the team or other 3rd party observer, please confirm or correct me if I’m wrong.
I’m not sure what your asking for here, could you clarify?
EDIT: checked the first post that we have the deployment times and info gathered from various sources, from that, it seems that PROVES - Electra deployed a couple of hours from the rest, so there is big probability that this is OBJECT YJ that is away from the others.
OBJECT YJ (69794) has been correlated with HUCSat based on frequency data obtained from many ground passes. HUCSat is the only 2U CubeSat on the mission, which likely accounts for its substantially different ground track from the rest.
OBJECT YP (69799) has been correlated with PROVES - Electra based on frequency data obtained from many ground passes.
Since, to my knowledge, none of the remaining 4 satellites are currently transmitting, it is more difficult to correlate them. However, based on initial TLEs and deployment timings, PROVES - Atlas and PROVES Alcyone are likely to be OBJECT YL (69796) and OBJECT YN (69798) in some order. So I would think that the most likely candidates for LEOPARDSat-1 (in some order) would be either OBJECT YK (69795) or OBJECT YM (69797), followed by the currently uncorrelated OBJECT YL or OBJECT YN.
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