KitSat 1
KitSat-1 (OSCAR 23) | |
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Country: | South Korea |
COSPAR-ID : | 1992-052B |
Mission dates | |
Dimensions: | 50 kg |
Size: | 35 × 35 × 67 cm |
Begin: | August 10, 1992, 23:08 UTC |
Starting place: | Center Spatial Guyanais ELA-2 |
Launcher: | Ariane-42P H10 V52 |
Status: | active |
Orbit data | |
Rotation time : | 111.9 min |
Orbit inclination : | 66.1 ° |
Apogee height : | 1331 km |
Perigee height : | 1314 km |
KitSat 1 (also OSCAR 23 or KitSat A ) is a South Korean technology testing and earth observation satellite. It was the first ever South Korean satellite and was built at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology . It was launched on August 10, 1992 as a secondary payload with an Ariane 42P-H10 missile from the Center Spatial Guyanais . After the successful launch, the satellite was also assigned the OSCAR number 23.
Structure and payload
KitSat 1 is based on the Microsat-70 satellite bus from the British company Surrey Satellite Technology . The main payload is the Earth observation system. It consists of two CCD sensors , two lenses and a transputer for image processing. One of the recording systems has a resolution of approximately 4 km, the second 400 m.
Other payloads are the Digital Signal Processing Experiment (DSPE), a store and forward mailbox for amateur radio and the Cosmic Ray Experiment (CRE). The satellite has two uplinks in the 2-meter band and one downlink in the 70-centimeter band for amateur radio purposes.
Web links
SSTL: KITSAT-1: The Mission ( Memento from December 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Experimental multimission microsatellites: KITSAT series (PDF, 1 MB)
- KitSat in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ KITSAT-A in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on May 23, 2014 (English).
- ↑ OSCAR 23 (KITSAT 1). N2YO, May 25, 2014, accessed May 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Kitsat 1, 2 (Uribyol 1, 2 / OSCAR 23, 25 / KO 23, 25). - Gunter's Space Page, April 5, 2014, accessed May 26, 2014 (English).