JAS 2

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JAS 2 ( Japanese Amateur Satellite , also OSCAR 29 , Fuji-OSCAR 29 , FO-29 ) is a Japanese amateur radio satellite . It was built by radio amateurs from the Japan Amateur Radio League .

The satellite was launched on August 17, 1996 as a secondary payload with an H-II rocket in the Tanegashima Space Center . After the successful launch, the satellite was assigned the OSCAR number 29. It is equipped with a linear transponder and a bulletin board, which enables Internet traffic in partial routes, as well as a digital kerf, which outputs voice in FM . The uplink is in the 2 m band and the downlink in the 70 cm band . Its COSPAR designation is 1996-046B.

literature

  • Fujio Yamashita: Japan's new amateur radio star - Fuji-OSCAR 29! In: QST, December 1996, 19.
  • Steve Ford: Fuji-OSCAR 29. In: QST, March 2005, 84.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunter Krebs: JAS 1a, 1b, 2 (Fuji 1a, 1b, 2 / FO 12, 20, 29 / OSCAR 12, 20, 29). Gunter's Space Page, accessed June 1, 2014 .
  2. ↑ JAS 2 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on June 1, 2014 (English).