Orbit and Tracking (TLE)

PW-Sat2 is now in orbit!

launch date: Dec. 3rd 2018, 18:32 UTC, Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express Mission

PW-Sat2 Orbit

• SSO-A rideshare mission aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9
• Sun-synchronous circular orbit
• 575 x 575 km mean altitude
• 97.75 degrees inclination

TLE data

Currently (2018-12-30) we use PW-SAT2 object with a great success from active.txt.

What is TLE?

A two-line element set (TLE) is a data format encoding a list of orbital elements of an Earth-orbiting object for a given point in time, the epoch.

• NORAD Two-Line Element Set Format
• Why is there so much TLE confusion when new Cubesats are launched?