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12/12/20

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Originally posted by Carnival: ↑

For anyone interested, I believe I have found the Kleos scouting satellites.
I had trouble finding them at first as I don’t think the Identification has been filed.
Anyway - if you go to https://celestrak.com/cesium/orbit-viz.php?tle=/pub/TLE/catalog.txt&satcat=/pub/satcat.txt&referenceFrame=1

Then search for satellites and in the search enter 2020-081 then you will get the 10 satellites on board the PSLV launch. You can see the RISAT, R2 and 4 x lemur satellites have all been named. They were the only other satellites on the launch, so I believe the remaining 4 are KSM.
You can then add them to the map to track.
3 have status active. 1 is unknown. Not sure what that means or is an issue or not.
These 4 are a long distance apart - you can see by changing the timeline that all 4 were together 5 weeks ago after launch.

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The Hawkeye 360 satellites can also be seen and are flying in tight formation. You have to zoom right in to be able to differentiate the 3 satellites on the map.
Like Kleos, they fly in a cluster formation for triangulation of radio signals and geolocation.
This should be useful info for retail investors to forecast timing on commercial data licensing.
The satellites presumably need to be in a cluster formation similar to Hawkeye before the 3 month trials can commence.

KSS Price at posting: 52.0¢ Sentiment: None Disclosure: Not Held
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