The CAMSAT CAS-5A amateur radio satellite will be piggybacked on the Smart Dragon-3 Y1 launch vehicle and launched from the sea launch platform in the Yellow Sea at UTC 06:35:02 on December 9.
CAS-5A deployment orbital elements:
Flight Time 724.670s
Semi-major axis 6926.918Km
eccentricity 8.143e-04
Orbital inclination 97.524°
Pergee height (relative to equatorial radius) 543.140km
Apogee altitude (relative to equatorial radius) 554.422km
Longitude of the ascending node 298.491°
Perigee angle (for reference only) 188.413°
True near point angle (for reference only) 344.096°
Flat near point angle (for reference only) 344.121°
Orbital period 5737.479s
Absolute speed 7591.699m/s
Absolute speed local inclination -1.278e-02°
Geodetic longitude 119.477°
Geographic latitude 7.475°
voyage 3336.983km
The user’s manual of CAS-5A satellite will be available later.
CAMSAT is looking for the CW beacon and telemetry monitoring.
73!
Alan Kung, BA1DU
The satellite is in DB with its transmitters and 99243 temporary NORAD ID. We need to generate or find preliminary TLE set for starting scheduling in Network.
CAS-5A,435540,145820,USB,LSB,REV,0,0,V/U Linear Transponder
CAS-5A,435600,145925,FM,FM,NOR,0,0,V/U FM Transponder
CAS-5A,21435,435505,LSB,USB,NOR,0,0,H/U Linear Transponder
CAS-5A,435570,CW,CW,NOR,0,0,CW Beacon
CAS-5A,435650,USB,USB,NOR,0,0,Telem Beacon
After a quick analysis, none of the objects fit perfectly, however the closest fits are OBJECT A and OBJECT D. For DB and Network we are going to use OBJECT D(54685) for now.
For now 54684 is the best fit, however we can not identify it as the objects are still in TBA (to be assigned) status. In this status they may be swapped, change or more TLE sets added.