BY70-1 decayed
DECAY_EPOCH WINDOW REV DIRECTION LAT LON INCL NEXT_REPORT 2017-02-18 00:19:00 6 821 descending -10.9 159.2 97.6 0 2017-02-18 00:19:00 24 821 descending -10.9 159.2 97.6 0 2017-02-18 01:23:00 60 821 descending 79 187.2 97.5 2 2017-02-18 01:32:00 180 821 descending 45.4 149.9 97.6 6 2017-02-18 01:32:00 300 821 descending 45.6 150 97.6 12 2017-02-18 01:21:00 480 821 ascending 82.5 237.4 97.6 24 2017-02-18 01:35:00 840 821 descending 25.6 145 97.6 48 2017-02-17 22:15:00 1140 819 ascending 63.6 356 97.6 72
farewell BY70-1 …
…these are the last two passes over Central Europe (20:43 UTC and 22:10 UTC)
I used the same TLE set for these passes (epoch time: 17048.85604685)
Unfortunately no telemetry packets anymore due to heavy usage of the transponder (… for the very last time)
Here is a graph of the February telemetry:
Great thanks to the Chinese BY70 team. Especially to Wei BG2BHC who gave us all the information to decode the telemetry and the images we could take.
I think we have reached a new level of cooperation. Let’s continue this in the future …
BY70-1 still alive
The rapidly decreasing orbit makes the TLE quickly useless
10:45 UTC and 12:15 UTC passes