Beware catalog watchers - a major change is occurring tomorrow. All Beidou satellites until 2016 have been named to match the UN registry. You should see the change on @SpaceTrackOrg tomorrow.
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Understood. I'm just saying that in a perfect world, using UN names would be 'cleaning things up', but alas in this world I'm not sure it is!
As I said earlier in other places, it would be much clearer if the Chinese uses spacecraft vehicle numbers for their navigation satellites. Alas BDS don't even have public status messages! Considering my phone already uses BDS, it's really awkward compared w/ other GNSS. 
