OSCAR 16

OSCAR 16
Type:	Amateur radio satellite
Country:	United States
Operator:	AMSAT
COSPAR-ID :	1990-005D
Mission dates
Dimensions:	13 kg
Size:	23 cm edge length
Begin:	January 22, 1990, 1:35 UTC
Starting place:	Center Spatial Guyanais ELA-2
Launcher:	Ariane 4 V-35
Status:	in orbit
Orbit data
Rotation time :	100.5 min
Orbit inclination :	98.5 °
Apogee height :	799 km
Perigee height :	783 km

OSCAR 16 (also AMSAT-OSCAR 16 , AO-16 , Microsat-1 , PACSAT ) is an American amateur radio satellite .

The cube-shaped satellite weighing 13 kg was developed and built by radio amateurs from AMSAT and launched on January 22, 1990 as a secondary payload together with the earth observation satellite SPOT 2 with an Ariane 4 from the Center Spatial Guyanais in Kourou .

The satellite has an AX.25 - BBS with uplinks in the 2-meter band and downlinks in the 70-centimeter band and 13-centimeter band . The COSPAR designation of OSCAR 16 is 1990-005D.

After a hardware failure, the satellite was configured for telephony operation in 2008 (uplink in FM , downlink in DSB ).

Web links

• AMSAT: AKMSAT OSCAR-16 ( Memento from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• KD2BD: Spotlight On: The Microsats ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OSCAR 16 (PACSAT). N2YO, October 21, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 . 
2. ↑ OSCAR 16 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on May 7, 2014 (English).
3. ↑ Satellite Serving as Voice Repeater Expected to Go QRT by End of Year. In: ARRL News. ARRL, November 12, 2008, accessed October 22, 2013 .