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ANDE / FCAL Object Number Correction

Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, reports that CELESTRACK has had the names of ANDE MAA and FCAL swapped.  

Bob says, "I clearly heard the difference during an overhead pass.  The signals from ANDE were clearly 2 minutes ahead of where I was tracking.  What I thought was ANDE MAA is actually FCAL and when I pointed at FCAL, I found strong signals from ANDE"

To summarize,
29667 is REALLY FCAL
29664 is REALLY ANDE MAA

CELESTRACK has had them reversed in its AMATEUR satellite list.

Much more information about these satellites is available on the ANDE, RAFT, NMARS, & FCAL Operations web site.
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html

 

Bob, WB4APR

 

 

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