LoTW refuses a QSO whose SAT_NAME is not spelled as in its accepted list - its own
help page gives AO7 against AO-7 as a rejection - so the name we upload has to match
exactly. The existing code derives that name with substringBefore('('), which returns
the descriptive part of a TLE name rather than the OSCAR designator: measured against
live Celestrak amateur data, 0 of 96 satellites resolved to a name LoTW accepts.
ASRTU-1 uploads as ASRTU-1 where LoTW wants AO-123.
Keying on the name cannot be made to work, because sources disagree. Of the 49
satellites carried by both Celestrak amateur and AMSAT nasabare, 33 are named
differently - 43017 is RADFXSAT (FOX-1B) in one and AO-91 in the other, 43700 is
ES'HAIL 2 against QO-100 - so which name a user gets depends on the source they
happen to fetch from. The NORAD catalogue number is identical everywhere, so this
table is keyed on it.
Coverage is 29 entries, not the 112 names LoTW lists, because the rest are satellites
no source still carries: they have re-entered, no user can track them, and a mapping
for them would never be consulted. Every number was read out of live TLE data from the
app's own configured sources rather than typed from memory - a first attempt at writing
them by hand had AO-123 as 62690 when it is 61781.
Three names matched more than one catalogued object and were settled by which object
the amateur-specific sources carry. ARISS is 25544, the station; the full catalogue
also lists ISS (UNITY), (ZVEZDA), (DESTINY) and (NAUKA), which are modules. IO-117 is
53109, named GREENCUBE (IO-117) by four sources against R4UAB alone calling it
ROBUSTA 1F. TO-108 is 44881, in all three amateur sources, where 44879 is TIANQIN 1.
Not yet wired into the upload path: WavelogQso carries only a satellite name, so the
catalogue number has to be threaded through from the radar screen first. This commit
adds the table and its tests only, leaving behaviour unchanged.
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