CAERUS beacon heard

Ken, W7KKE heard the first beacon from CAERUS on 437.600MHz (1k2 AFSK every 10 sec) at 20:25 UTC

KJ6FIX-1>CQ,TCPIP/1: :
4341455255533B000200000C080A020D1B0A560000001000402EE20400D0F5230008A2F0549026821CC7C6D022F9F80104100A041003242080A5C07FBF8B80BDC0B98094F3

decoded packet:
Total length: 59
Type:2
Unused: 0x00 0x00
Time: 12/8/10-2-13:27:10
Reboots: 86
Last Reboot Cause: 0
Flash Status: 16
Bit 0 = 0 : Device is ready.
Bit 1 = 0 : Device is NOT write-enabled.
Bit3&4= 1 : All sectors software-protected.
Bit 4 = 1 : WP is deasserted.
Bit 5 = 0 : Last op successful.
Bit 7 = 0 : Sector Protection Registers unlocked.
Radio Status: 64
No detailed Radio info yet
TLM Pointer: 320046
PLY Pointer: 2356688
Last Sent Command: 0x08 0xa2 0xf0 0x54 0x90 0x26 0x82 0x1c 0xc7 0xc6 0xd0 0x22 0xf9 0xf8 0x01
Time: 4/16/10-4-16:3:36
Gyro Rates Data Bytes: 0x20 0x80 0xa5 0xc0 0x7f 0xbf
Gyro Rates (deg/s): A: 2.34432 B: 12.0879 C: -9.450541
Gyro Rates New Data Flags: A: true B: true C: true
Gyro Rates Error Flags: A: false B: true C: false
Gyro Temp Data Bytes: 0x8b 0x80 0xbd 0xc0 0xb9 0x80
Gyro Temps (deg C): A: 45.1967 B: 52.4617 C: 51.8805
Gyro Temps New Data Flags: A: true B: true C: true
Gyro Temps Error Flags: A: false B: true C: false
Total count: 59 (Should be 83 or 59)

Here are the first published TLE

CAERUS
1 99999U 99999    10342.68664352  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    14
2 99999  34.5382 180.5256 0019992 245.8787 334.0535 15.92118320    16

More information here: http://www2.isi.edu/research/prj-serc/prj-serc_projects/prj-serc_projects-8.htm

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