Re: NORAD 40050

From: wkitty42_at_gmail.com via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:12:49 -0400
On 10/24/2014 9:56 AM, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
>
> Just be careful because Space-Track will eventually reuse the number 40050 for
> something else - it can take them up to a year to do this.

yes, we have seen this happen a time or two in the past, eh? ;)

> So I hold 40050 as unassigned for the time being.
> You are correct that BRITE-Montreal is currently part of 2014-033AP.  For what
> it's worth I have it in my "auxiliary catalog" as A08229,
> with a note that it is currently attached to S40047.  I'm going to publish the
> auxiliary catalog one of these days...

that's another idea i hadn't thought about... my OCD was just getting the best 
of me about that number not having been assigned as long as it has been... hummm 
[thinking]...

thanks for the input! :)

>
> On 24 October 2014 02:32, wkitty42_at_gmail.com <wkitty42_at_gmail.com> via
> Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:
>
>     On 10/23/2014 11:02 PM, Henry Hallam wrote:
>
>         On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:01 PM, wkitty42_at_gmail.com
>         <mailto:wkitty42_at_gmail.com> via Seesat-l
>         <seesat-l_at_satobs.org <mailto:seesat-l_at_satobs.org>> wrote:
>
>
>             does anyone have an idea what NORAD 40050 is supposed to be? it
>             hasn't been
>             updated at space-track yet...
>
>      >
>      > I believe it was a placeholder for the BRITE-CA 2 (BRITE-Montreal)
>      > nanosatellite intended to be deployed from the June 19th Dnepr launch
>      > (COSPAR 2014-033).  The satellite was apparently not successfully
>      > deployed from the upper stage.
>
>     ahhh... i remember updating wikipedia about the montreal unit not
>     separating... i hadn't thought about it being that missing assignment...
>
>     if that is what it is, then i'll probably assign it in my stuff and point it
>     to the rocket stage where its launcher was mounted (2014-033AP) since those
>     two will have the same TLE values... orbit data for that object's TLE from
>     Oct 18 2014 indicates a 608x1453x97 orbit which is matched/confirmed by
>     JSR:699...
>
>     valid concept?? perhaps space-track and/or their providers might do the same?



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