JAS 1B

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JAS 1B
Country: JapanJapan Japan
Operator: JARL
COSPAR-ID : 1990-013C
Mission dates
Dimensions: 50 kg
Begin: February 7, 1990, 1:33:00 UTC
Starting place: Tanegashima Space Center
Launcher: HI
Status: in orbit
Orbit data
Rotation time : 112 min
Orbit inclination : 99 °
Apogee height :  1.746 km
Perigee height :  920 km

JAS 1B ( English Japan Amateur Satellite 1B , also FUJI 2 , OSCAR 20 or FO-20 ) is a Japanese amateur radio satellite .

It was developed and built by the Japan Amateur Radio League and launched on February 7, 1990 with an HI rocket at Tanegashima Space Center together with MOS-1B .

The 50-kg satellite has both a AX25 - Digipeater and a 100 kHz wide linear transponders , each with uplink in the 2-meter band and downlink in the 70-centimeter band . The Space radio station has the call sign 8J1JBS. The COSPAR designation is 1990-013C.

literature

  • Joe Kasser: The Fuji-OSCAR-20 Spacecraft. AMSAT Journal, July 1990, p.7.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JAS-1B in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on October 25, 2013 (English).