Iām asking you for confirmation, but apparently BQ seems to track HERMES H5, and BP could be compatible with HERMES H4. Not sure about BR and H3 though.
BQ seems to be the one that follow HERMES H5
BP while it is close to HERMES H4 doesnāt seem to be a very good fit
BR given that is the remaining one, should be H3
However we still expect other objects from this launch, so the new objects may not all of them describe HERMES satellites.
For now Iām going to change in DB the satellites to follow these objects and schedule a couple more observation to confirm or not the above.
For HERMES H3, I think that I mixed up the signals from HERMES H5, so the TLE Iāve published in my previous posts probably is following HERMES H5. @rcampana please point me to any Networkās observations, even if they are old, that you have managed to decode HERMES H3 signal, this will be very useful for further analysis and make sure that we track the right objects.
Perfect! The BR object seems to fit very well the observations for HERMES H3.
So, now letās wait to see what is going on with the HERMES H4, maybe with an update of the TLE set of this object, and wait for objects to be assigned for H3 and H5 in order to move forward with identification.
One last request, can you confirm that signal on HERMES H6 observations is indeed HERMES H6? We are following some days now 63489 for it and looks like perfect fit, so with your confirmation we can move on identifying it.
It looks like that H5 and H3 are now well tracked by the objects BR and BQ, however the H4 doesnāt seem to fit well object BP, for example here: SatNOGS Network - Observation 11553658
@rcampana I would like just to confirm that what we see in the observation above and other H4 observations is indeed H4.
I suggest we keep tracking this object for a couple more days and if it continues to not fit then go back to generate ours again.
In other news, from nasaspaceflight forum, there is a link to alba orbital youtube channel where they have posted a video of the deployment of HADES-ICM, HYDRA-W, UNIQORN-2Q.
Given that only these three satellite are visible in video, that means that the other 3 UNIQORNS werenāt deployed at the same time. With a quick search, I can not find any reference for their deployment, if it happens earlier, if it was successful or not or if it hasnāt happened yet. Itās important to know for identifying the remaining satellites of this launch.
Hi Fredy,
in this observation (11553658) we decode about 25 beacons from H6 and only two from H4. Objects BK and BP appears to be very close together, so I think we have to wait that their orbital separation is large enough to isolate the beacons in order to unambiguously identify if BP is indeed H4.
Thanks a lot for all the support the community is giving us during these first weeks of HERMES operations. We are extremely grateful for your invaluable contribution to this project (the team already agreed to acknowledge that in our future publications), and we hope you can continue to use some of your time to observe the HERMES constellation.
In these days your observations are really valuable since we are troubling with a temporary inefficiency of our ground station. For this reason, the community obs represent more than 90% of our engineering data right now (all the efforts we are putting in resolving these issues are essentially based on the community), so we were wondering if you are planning to continue observing HERMES in the next period.
@abrando Iāve seen that HERMES H1 has been identified in space-track.org as 63242. Does this mean you have managed to receive it/communicate with it?
Can you also give us a brief status of all the HERMES satellites, Iām going to update the status for this launch during the weekend and Iām looking to verify some of the space-track.org identifications.
Thank you!
In other news Iāve changed some days ago the object we follow for HYVRID to 98630 as it seems to be a better candidate.
Hello @fredy, weāve never been able to receive anything from H1, nevertheless we agree on the association made with object 63242. Whereas to give the status of the other satellites, we are still able to receive from all of them, even if we are still struggling on the uplink point of view.
We identified all of them with the following objects:
