Possible Ncube-2 deployment - Update
Many thanks to everyone who has been listening for NCube-2 and
reporting in over the past 18 hours.
Sadly we have not yet had any reports of signals being received.
We have however had advice from NORAD that they do not believe
it to be lightweight debris like a simple piece of kapton/aluminium
foil. They are doing more investigations to see how the orbit of
the new object compares with the other two cubesats.
The most recent element set for the new object is:
1 28897U 05043H 05356.63371086 .00000199 00000-0 51744-4 0 40
2 28897 98.1788 252.5557 0017644 5.9903 354.1530 14.59489176 371
This puts it some 30 secs ahead of Express and in a slightly more
elliptical orbit.
Please keep your fingers crossed and your ears open....:)
73
Graham G3VZV
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