KitSat 1

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KitSat-1 (OSCAR 23)
Country: Korea SouthSouth Korea 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 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KITSAT-A in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on May 23, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ OSCAR 23 (KITSAT 1). N2YO, May 25, 2014, accessed May 26, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Kitsat 1, 2 (Uribyol 1, 2 / OSCAR 23, 25 / KO 23, 25). - Gunter's Space Page, April 5, 2014, accessed May 26, 2014 (English).