Keps from OIG Re: [amsat-bb] FW: And on a different subject

[Randy Kohlwey <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 January 2004 08:30, Mike Branda wrote:
> This popped up on another mail list.  Anyone know anything about this?
>
> "Just for those that don't know the USAF have been pushing for some time to
> take over NASA's responsibility for disseminating orbital data - a lot
> of which has been made available for the public to access over many years
> on the NASA OIG site - and from there many sites such as Celestrak and
> Heavens Above have also made use of it.

I check NASA OIG site very often for updates on the satellites that 
launched with WO-39 (JAWSAT).  It has been reporting:

26061 JAWSAT No TLE found.
and
26065 ASUSAT No TLE found.

for several months now.  The last valid set I got for JAWSAT was from
Oct 30, 2003:

WO-39
1 26061U 00004A   03303.41062303  .00002252  00000-0  75720-3 0  9734
2 26061 100.1904  47.3011 0034615 281.6926  78.0378 14.38082544197011

and for ASUSAT was from Nov 11, 2003:

AO-37
1 26065U 00004E   03315.96377143  .00000145  00000-0  70138-4 0 09527
2 26065 100.1923 058.7024 0036902 257.3642 102.3411 14.35620788198602


I am still able to get updated keps for the other objects:

OPAL                    26063
FALCONSAT       26064
MINOTAUR R/B   26066
MINOTAUR DEB 26079
PICOSAT 1&2 (TETHERED) 26080
PICOSAT 3   26091
PICOSAT 4   26092
PICOSAT 5   26093
PICOSAT 6   26094

I requested a history of JAWSAT Keps but never received it via E-Mail.

Any one know if the above transition NASA to USAF started early or
why ASUSAT and JAWSAT are not found but Falconsat and OPAL are?

Thanks,

Randy N7SFI

My latest copy of keps from NASA OIG can be found at:

              http://www.uglyfrog.com/n7sfi/2ln.txt


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