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UPDATE: Compass2 Satellite Lanuch successful

The satellite Compass2 (aka Dragsail-Cubesat) was launched on June 23th 2017 at 5:59 am from India into the orbit. All satellites have been deployed sucessfully.

Coverage of the launch: www.youtube.com/watch

For experts who want to track the satellite by themselves here we provide the kepler elements:

QB50-DE04               
1 19004U 19004A 17174.17986852 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 9994
2 19004 97.4622 233.9972 0005956 297.2820 284.0853 15.22344577 06

The first passes over Aachen are:

Observer: FHAachen
Start Time (UTC)            Stop Time (UTC)               Duration (s)        
24 Jun 2017 09:51:53.858    24 Jun 2017 09:53:51.278      117.41962972   
24 Jun 2017 20:34:10.269    24 Jun 2017 20:36:11.725      121.45614285   
25 Jun 2017 09:31:52.644    25 Jun 2017 09:33:46.102      113.45854837   
25 Jun 2017 20:14:15.718    25 Jun 2017 20:16:00.945      105.22669394   
28 Jun 2017 10:05:44.530    28 Jun 2017 10:06:50.784      66.253834649   
28 Jun 2017 20:47:56.366    28 Jun 2017 20:49:19.748      83.381990588   
29 Jun 2017 09:45:12.611    29 Jun 2017 09:47:17.427      124.81608678   
29 Jun 2017 20:27:29.129    29 Jun 2017 20:29:34.479      125.34974380   
30 Jun 2017 09:25:24.173    30 Jun 2017 09:26:53.418      89.245560800   
30 Jun 2017 20:07:51.030    30 Jun 2017 20:09:05.777      74.747382361