@jupitersaturn09 Great idea! Next mission we will add this capability !
Here is an attempt to have better TLE set for RAMSAT:
RAMSAT
1 48850U 22283.49987490 .00000000 00000-0 10495-2 0 06
2 48850 51.6199 78.9738 0010410 299.6809 59.0969 16.28691071 08
This is based on data from Network’s observations.
A much better TLE by @cgbsat:
RAMSAT
1 48850U 22284.41666667 .00000000 00000-0 47364-3 0 05
2 48850 51.6224 73.3012 0005609 281.5524 71.5519 16.36743648 06
However we are going to add one more in some minutes after the pass over Europe.
Here is the latest set by @cgbsat :
RAMSAT
1 48850U 22284.42013889 .00000000 00000-0 47228-3 0 07
2 48850 51.6224 73.3956 0001035 291.6428 82.2807 16.36951068 03
One more update on TLE by @cgbsat:
RAMSAT
1 48850U 22284.49652778 .00000000 00000-0 45018-3 0 05
2 48850 51.6224 72.6572 0000000 52.8587 53.9466 16.42495397 04
That’s probably it for STRF generated TLEs, as I won’t have any more passes until tomorrow, and I expect it will have re-entered by then.
It’ll be interesting to see how well the last TLE holds for observations over the coming hours.
But basically this argues for STRF capable stations at other continents!
I think we are observing signs of heating on the solar panels and in the core temperatures over the past few hours.
If you’re in southeast Australia, look up and you may see RamSat coming in hot!
I do believe we’ve heard the last from RamSat! @fredy , the final obs you made at station 1089 in South Africa is phenomenal. Those two beacons record the rapid rise in temperature on the solar panels and the climbing temperature inside, while most of the other systems still seemed to be working normally. Fantastic, thank you!!
@zr6aic station once more it seems that receives the last data decoded from a satellite before re-entering congratulations! (the previous one was bobcat-1).
@pethornton what a great mission! Thank you for providing details and updates during the whole mission, it is great to have such a feedback from a satellite team.
Those figures are amazing!
Congrats on a great mission! Glad we could contribute.
Congrats everyone on a successful mission!
I hope the next mission will be even more insanely successful.
73!
VE3SVF
The RamSat team has been taking a break, but I’ll update below with a few pieces of news. I hope you are well! If the map shows your location, it looks like you will be in for some very cold snowy weather over the holiday. Stay warm!!
Our project team has been taking a break after the de-orbit in October, but we do have a bit of fun news to share: we submitted an article describing the mission to QST (magazine outlet for ARRL), and it has just been published! You can check out the article online here, or get your very own copy at your local newsstand.
In the article, we highlight the very important contributions made by SatNOGS to our mission.
Another bit of recent excitement: four of the RamSat students participated in a poster session at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, last week in Chicago. The students designed the research and produced the poster on their own.
They did an amazing job sharing their results with other meeting participants.
The lead for small-sats at NASA Headquarters, Florence Tan, stopped by to meet the students and congratulate them on a successful mission!
They also had the chance to meet with student groups from around the U.S. and the world, including a large contingent from Hong Kong.
That is my location indeed =D
Thank you so much!! It already is raining and snowing (at the same time!) with winds blowing really hard. Let’s hope my antennas stay up!
Happy Holidays to you and everybody on the team!
Looks like a lot of fun