JAWSAT

JAWSAT
Country:	United States
COSPAR-ID :	2000-004A
Mission dates
Dimensions:	191 kg
Begin:	January 27, 2000
Starting place:	Vandenberg Air Force Base
Launcher:	Minotaur I
Orbit data
Rotation time :	100.42 min
Track height:	806 km
Orbit inclination :	100.23 °
Perigee height :	751 km

JAWSAT ( Joint Air Force Academy - Weber State University Satellite , also OSCAR 39 ) was a US satellite built jointly by Weber State University and the United States Air Force Academy .

The satellite was launched on January 27, 2000 at 3:03 a.m. UTC (January 26 local time) with a Minotaur-I rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base . The satellite served as a multi-payload adapter for the nanosatellites FalconSat 1 , ASUSat , OCS and OPAL (Orbiting Picosat Automatic Launcher), whereby OPAL in turn carried the Picosatellites Picosat 1 to 6 with it. All satellites were successfully deployed 13-16 minutes after launch, with JAWSAT still connected to the fourth stage of the Minotaur. JAWSAT eventually broke away from upper school 19 minutes after it started.

As a payload of the nano satellite plasma experiment Satellite Test (PEST) from remaining after exposure Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA and the Attitude Controlled Platform (ACP) Weber State University in jawsat.

It was equipped with amateur radio transmitters for the 70 cm and 13 cm bands , but they could not be activated. All payloads were successfully launched. After the successful launch, the satellite was assigned the OSCAR number 39 and was also referred to as Weber-OSCAR 39 or WO-39 , which made it the successor to Weber-OSCAR 18.

Its COSPAR designation is 2000-004A.

literature

• Steve Ford: The ARRL Satellite Handbook. American Radio Relay League, Newington CT 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JAWSat in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on August 24, 2013.
2. ↑ Antonín Vítek: 2000-004A - jawsat. Knihovna Akademie věd ČR, 2007, accessed on October 15, 2013 (cz). 
3. ^ Gunter Krebs: JAWSAT. Gunter's Space Page, August 10, 2013, accessed August 25, 2013 .