@BowlOfRed's answer to Which of the recently launched Starlink satellites is the coated one? links to Celestrak's supplemental table for Starlink. https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/supplemental/table.php?tleFile=starlink
At the moment it shows:
Internatnl NORAD Name Period Incl. Apo Peri Eccentricity
Designator Catalog (min) (degs) (km) (km)
Number
2020-001BL 71130 STARLINK-1130 (DARKSAT) 91.12 53.00 333 326 0.0005603
But from Celestrak's Satcat at the moment: https://celestrak.org/pub/satcat.txt
2020-001BL 44972 *+ STARLINK BL US 2020-01-07 AFETR N/A
Question: In these two Celestrak lists, for the object 2020-001BL
why is the catalog number given as 71130
in one but 44972
in the other?
note: answer(s) to Why are there some NORAD catalog IDs larger than 80000 in space-track? only explain numbers above 80000
, but this is in the 70000's
.
update 1: A new batch has just been launched and they are once again in the 7100's
update 2: An even newer batch has just been launched and they are once again in the 7100's