NROL-39 Mission Patch

At 07:14:30 UT on Friday, December 6, 2013 a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 3-East (SLC-3E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s Central Coast.

In addition to a classified satellite for the US spy satellite agency the National Reconnaissance Office it carried 12 CubeSats four of which have amateur radio payloads.

Justin Foley KI6EPH has made available these TLE’s for the CubeSats:

PPOD1
1 00001U          13340.43204282  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0 00000
2 00001 120.4882 227.3527 0301576 340.0281 093.1359 14.65461765000012
PPOD3
1 00003U          13340.43620949  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0 00004
2 00003 120.4882 227.3673 0301594 340.0232 115.1268 14.65472149000014
PPOD5
1 00005U          13340.44037616  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0 00000
2 00005 120.4883 227.3812 0301504 340.0132 137.1239 14.65467927000012

Further information on the CubeSats on the Atlas V GEMSat Launch 2013 http://cubesat.org/index.php/missions/upcoming-launches/134-l39-launch-alert

Follow the launch day chat on the #cubesat IRC channel see
http://www.cubesat.org/index.php/collaborate/ground-operators

Space Flight Now story http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av042/131206launch/

Mcubed-2 http://exploration.engin.umich.edu/blog/?page_id=1830

MCubed-2 Live Telemetry and Tracking http://exploration.engin.umich.edu/blog/?page_id=1933

MCubed-2 – Credit Michigan Exploration Laboratory (MXL)