Re: Launch 2018-104, Electron From New Zealand - One Satellite's Identification (?)

From: Charles Phillips via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:46:44 -0700 (MST)
All -

Oops. typo. The name is Goergen not Goergan. And he says that JPL and SDL have heard it today. 

Charles

> On December 21, 2018 at 12:00 PM Jonathan McDowell <planet4589_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     So he is called GoergAn but the satellite is GoergEn?  Any connection?
> 
>     On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 12:37, Charles Phillips via Seesat-l < seesat-l_at_satobs.org mailto:seesat-l_at_satobs.org > wrote:
> 
>         > > All -
> > 
> >         Someone I know, Mark Goergan, sent me this information:
> > 
> >     > 

Oops. Goergen. 

> 
>         > > 
> >         After a long wait, DARPA's SHFT1 satellite launched on Dec 16th aboard an Electron launch vehicle. It is known by several names,
> > 
> >         including 18104M, OBJECT M, and 43860.  18104M is the international designator that means it was on the 104th launch of 2018
> > 
> >         and was the 14th item identified from that launch. 43860 is the NORAD Catalog ID. Yesterday, DARPA informed the Combined Space
> > 
> >         Operations Center (CSpOC) at Vandenberg AFB that 43860 is named GOERGEN.
> > 
> > 
> >         GOERGEN was deployed along with 14 other satellites and is operating nominally. Radio communication was established on its first
> > 
> >         pass over the ground station and it is still working fine!
> > 
> > 
> >         The usual sites have not given any beacon information, and downlink frequencies; so I sent a note asking for that. Mark says that the ground station has heard the satellite - this information will be interesting to our RF astronomers.
> > 
> >         Charles Phillips
> >         Spaceflight Research, LLC
> >         Houston, Texas
> >         713-882-4578
> >         http://sites.google.com/site/spaceflightresearchprojects/
> > 
> >     > 
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