Tianwen-2 is a Chinese asteroid sampling mission. Asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa Orbit insertion is planned for June 7, 2026. 📡〰️Received with our 20m @SternwarteBO#Tianwen2#Asteroid
With the 25m Dwingeloo radio telescope, we just tracked #Tianwen-2 on X-band. It was at an offset of 1.1 degrees from asteroid Kamo'oalewa, which it is going to visit. We recorded IQ data, maybe others can decode this (@ea4gpz, @r2x0t, @aang254?). Data at data.camras.nl/satellites/ra….
ALT Screenshot showing a spectrum of Tianwen-2. Left shows SatDump with a clean constellation, using the Tianwen-1 decoder. Top right shows a graph of power vs time, which was used to find the right pointing. Bottom right shows another spectrum.