IDEFIX CU1

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IDEFIX CU1 (after the start also BreizhSAT-OSCAR 47 from Breton for Bretagne satellite and the English abbreviation OSCAR ) is a French amateur radio satellite .

It was developed and built by radio amateurs from AMSAT France and launched on May 4, 2002 with an Ariane 42P rocket from the Center Spatial Guyanais . The satellite, together with its sister satellite IDEFIX CU2, is permanently mounted on the upper stage of the rocket that brought the Earth observation satellite Spot 5 into space .

The satellite broadcast telemetry signals and recorded voice messages in the 2 meter band . After 32 days, BO-47, which does not have solar cells, stopped operating. The COSPAR designation is 2002-021B.

literature

  • French picosats receive OSCAR numbers. In: CQ Amateur Radio, 2002 (58), August, page 5.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Rupprecht: BREIZH OSCAR 47, 48. dk3wn.info, September 2, 2008, accessed on June 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Ariane 4 Rocket Body in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on June 9, 2014 (English).