JAS 1
JAS 1 | |
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Country: | Japan |
Operator: | JARL |
COSPAR-ID : | 1986-061B |
Mission dates | |
Dimensions: | 50 kg |
Begin: | August 12, 1986, 20:45:00 UTC |
Starting place: | Tanegashima Space Center |
Launcher: | HI |
Status: | in orbit |
Orbit data | |
Rotation time : | 116 min |
Orbit inclination : | 50 ° |
Apogee height : | 1500 km |
Perigee height : | 1500 km |
JAS 1 ( English Japan Amateur Satellite-1 , also FUJI 1 , OSCAR 12 or FO-12 ) is a Japanese amateur radio satellite .
It was developed and built by the Japan Amateur Radio League and launched on August 12, 1986 with an HI rocket together with the Experimental Geodetic Satellite from the Tanegashima Space Center .
The 50-kg satellite was both a AX25 - mailbox as well as a 100 kHz wide linear transponders , each with uplink in the 2-meter band and downlink in the 70-centimeter band . The space station had the callsign 8J1JAS. The COSPAR designation was 1986-061B.
JAS 1 has the shape of a 26-faced polyhedron with a size of 40 × 40 × 47 cm. On November 5, 1989, the satellite failed due to a battery failure. Its successor is JAS 1B .
literature
- Vern Riportella: Birth of a New OSCAR: First All-Japanese Project Debuts. QST, Oct 1986, 73.
Individual evidence
- ↑ JAS 1 (FUJI 1) - Satellite details and information about 1986-061B object, TLE data for NORAD 16909. Infosatellites.com, December 7, 2012, accessed on October 25, 2013 (English).
- ↑ JAS-1 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on October 25, 2013.
- ^ A Brief History of Amateur Satellites. qsl.net, July 27, 1997, accessed October 25, 2013 .