Our first local ground station pass is at 23:40 UTC today. We will keep you updated. Is it possible to decode anything like callsign from either the MAMBO listings or the ASTRA-HyRAX listings?
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Unfortunately we need IQ to perform further analysis on the observed signals. If you can provide this from your own observation, it would be very helpful.
We will record when we have a pass
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In search of more detailed LoRa parameters, I reached out to the USNA-16 Team today. Sadly, we can scratch that from this deployment.
The reply was:
Unfortunately, USNA16 was de-manifested from the recent launch and will instead fly at a later date.
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With so many SatNogs observations seeing solid signals on 401.500, Iāve been trying to ID what those signals were.
Using Observation SatNOGS Network - Observation 13759632 , there were clean 2k4 decodes w/ āLight-1ā framing:
ā¦ I donāt know if these frames match any known sats or what, but wanted to chime in on what we might be seeing there.
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Iāve updated the first post and the DB according to the latest updates and by also using this press release:
So, INCA-2, MOCI, USNA-16 have their status changed to āfutureā, all the future observations in Network has been removed.
MAMBO entry is now for the unknown satellite (one of STPSat-7, Rawhide, MISR-C, AggieSat6, or ASTRA-HyRAX ) and it is named āUnknown 1 - MinoTaur IVā. My guess would be MISR-C but havenāt found many details about this mission, so Ietās keep observing to find out.
EDIT: MISR-C according to the related ITU entry is only transmitting in S-band
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As others have posted, CANVAS looks good. Ahh, the simple days of plain olā 9k6 decoding. So now I guess itās time to move on to help locate some of the objects that arenāt as straight-forward!
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That is quick, we have TLE CelesTrak: International Designator 2026-074
STP-S29A OBJECT A
1 68627U 26074A 26097.91706032 .00004294 00000+0 19197-3 0 9998
2 68627 60.0189 87.7223 0014676 297.1477 62.8106 15.23090715 78
STP-S29A OBJECT B
1 68628U 26074B 26097.91703438 .00002001 00000+0 95544-4 0 9991
2 68628 60.0213 87.7179 0015323 307.5634 52.4054 15.23216244 61
STP-S29A OBJECT C
1 68629U 26074C 26097.91691434 .00002055 00000+0 96632-4 0 9992
2 68629 60.0169 87.7048 0017930 312.2375 47.7183 15.23617771 79
STP-S29A OBJECT D
1 68630U 26074D 26097.85121279 .00002133 00000+0 98955-4 0 9999
2 68630 60.0175 87.9509 0010752 306.1889 53.8196 15.23975335 52
STP-S29A OBJECT E
1 68631U 26074E 26097.85121689 .00002126 00000+0 98563-4 0 9992
2 68631 60.0200 87.9620 0016392 317.0808 42.8992 15.23975913 69
STP-S29A OBJECT F
1 68632U 26074F 26097.85111469 .00002002 00000+0 92387-4 0 9999
2 68632 60.0333 87.9594 0016443 317.9536 42.0281 15.24400618 59
STP-S29A OBJECT G
1 68633U 26074G 26097.85101413 .00002187 00000+0 98455-4 0 9994
2 68633 60.0233 87.9661 0017521 330.0565 29.9512 15.24870914 51
STP-S29A OBJECT H
1 68634U 26074H 26097.85093502 .00002127 00000+0 95039-4 0 9993
2 68634 60.0231 87.9632 0020139 334.8183 25.1914 15.25223134 67
STP-S29A OBJECT J
1 68635U 26074J 26097.85124475 .00000506 00000+0 32579-4 0 9997
2 68635 60.0274 87.9804 0017925 317.0045 42.9633 15.23828546 66
68629: 0.257 kHz 437.249770 MHz | TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
68630: 0.168 kHz 437.249938 MHz | TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
68631: 0.169 kHz 437.249952 MHz | TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
68632: 0.332 kHz 437.250196 MHz | TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
68635: 0.176 kHz 437.249896 MHz | TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
At the moment CANVAS seems 68630 based on last nights STRF data, but 68631 is also a candidate.
Jan | PE0SAT
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Thatās interesting, 9 objects but 6 satellites, if Iām not mistaken, are announced in the press release. So, we have 3 more objects, which may be parts of the rocket.
Indeed the two objects are very close, Iāve updated in DB to follow 68630 for now, letās keep an eye as the TLE will be assigned and change their TBA (to be assigned) status.
For the unknown object it seems that 68629 fits better, so Iāve updated in DB to follow this for now, but letās keep watching.
For ASTRA-HyRAX Iāve randomly chosen to follow 68631 as it is in the middle of this launch objects, unfortunately still no signal received from it.
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401.500 MHz ā Replay of IQ recording at 17:05:55 UTC
Has anyone ever seen anything like this? 
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As Jonathan McDowell noted in this post, one of the object is Minotaur stage 4 and what I missed is that there is a pair of Rawhide satellites, so we have 7 satellites, 1 rocket stage and one unknown object.
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CANVAS is obviously in grand shape and several others ended up not actually being on this deployment.
So, whatās next? Which object(s) should we prioritize from this deployment at this point?
Thanks!
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I think we should try to get ASTRA-HyRAX and try to identify which one is Unknown 1 - MinoTaur IV.
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Able to decode the Unknown 1 - MinoTaur IV with gr_satellites.
Work in progress, at the moment also looking at csp telemetry decode.
name: UNKNOWN-1
norad: 98337
data:
&tlm unknown telemetry:
unknown
&csp CSP Telemetry:
telemetry: csp
transmitters:
2k4 FSK downlink:
frequency: 401.500e+6
modulation: FSK
baudrate: 2400
deviation: 600
framing: Light-1
data:
- *tlm
- *csp
gr_satellites UNKNOWN-1.yml --wavfile 13764253.ogg --samp_rate 48e3
***** VERBOSE PDU DEBUG PRINT ******
((transmitter . 2k4 FSK downlink))
pdu length = 65 bytes
pdu vector contents =
0000: 00 02 21 d4 00 fd fc f7 ce 6c 50 9e ee b2 86 1d
-> Packet from 2k4 FSK downlink
0010: 61 f6 19 9e d6 48 83 39 45 ac e0 5d 61 97 46 15
0020: 83 58 5d ab 46 65 1c 32 23 0e 07 15 48 50 65 88
0030: 3f d5 e6 da b3 ae 64 9f f7 4f 70 cb b5 80 eb 02
0040: 55
************************************
Container:
header = Container:
priority = 0
source = 0
destination = 0
destination_port = 8
source_port = 33
reserved = 6
fragmentation = True
hmac = False
xtea = True
rdp = False
crc = False
payload = b'\x00\xfd\xfc\xf7\xcelP\x9e\xee\xb2\x86\x1da\xf6\x19\x9e\xd6H\x839E\xac\xe0]a\x97F\x15\x83X]\xabFe\x1c2#\x0e\x07\x15HPe\x88?\xd5\xe6\xda\xb3\xaed\x9f\xf7Op\xcb\xb5\x80\xeb\x02U' (total 61)
***** VERBOSE PDU DEBUG PRINT ******
((transmitter . 2k4 FSK downlink))
pdu length = 65 bytes
pdu vector contents =
0000: 00 02 21 d4 00 13 6b f1 dc 5e 32 19 6d 2f 35 a2
0010: 1e 1b 83 83 8a 9e 21 5a cb c6 49 4a 3c c8 d1 3a
0020: ac 2e 47 e8 9a cf 80 19 a5 fd af 83 dc 42 61 19
All frames start with 00 02 21 d4 00 this could be an identifier.
Jan | PE0SAT
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Hey, this is the ASTRA-HyRAX team. Unfortunately, we still have not made contact with ASTRA-HyRAX. We are most likely dead at this point. However, we would appreciate yāall continuing to look out for it. We are expecting a beacon at 80 second intervals at 401.475 MHz GSFK 9600. We have continued to monitor the reports that people have been posting in observations for ASTRA-HyRAX and there were some promising ones, but nothing was actually us. Thanks!
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Sorry to hear that!
Itās a long-shot, but does your radio hardware have a factory-default frequency and mode that it might have reverted back to from low voltage, radiation, etc?
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Unfortunately, no it does not have a factory-default frequency. It should have stayed at the 401.475.
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A quick update:
CANVAS is object 68635.
Unknown 1 - MinoTaur IV is object 68629
Unfortunately no reception from ASTRA-HyRAX, we continue randomly to follow 68631 but if the team want to follow any other object let me know.
Additionally with Unknown 1 - MinoTaur IV there is another Unknown object from this launch that follows 68632 transmits at the same frequency as Unknown 1, 401.500 MHz and it looks like the same kind of transmission. You can take a look of both objects in this observation: SatNOGS Network - Observation 13765278 and there are many others similar to this one.
It seems that both of them have stopped (after command?) to beacon at UHF but from time to time there are some transmissions (maybe after command). Iāve added the second object to track it and verify its transmissions as Unknown 2 - MinoTaur IV.
Given that both transmit at the same frequency and their transmissions are similar, my guess is that they are the only pair of this launch Rawhide-1 and Rawhide-2, however there isnāt any other information verifying it so weāll keep them as unknown in DB for now.
The changes in the NORAD IDs in DB will be performed tomorrow with links to identification evidence.
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@fredy Since we have still not received reception from ASTRA-HyRAX we are interested in using our ground station to track other satellites if needed. Do you know how we go about registering the ground station for that purpose for SatNOGS? We have had success with see other satellites and objects in our waterfall plots while we were watching for ASTRA-HyRAX.
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@eam0052 Hi! Iām from the CU Boulder/LASP Ops team, we could use some extra observation time for one of our Cubesats we launched on Transporter 16 a couple weeks ago. Itās transmitting on 401.2MHz; GMSK 9600. Sounds like your antenna would be a great fit 
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