OSCAR 17

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OSCAR 17 (DOVE)
Type: Amateur radio satellite
Country: BrazilBrazil Brazil
COSPAR-ID : 1990-005E
Mission dates
Dimensions: 12 kg
Size: 15 cm × 15 cm × 15 cm
Begin: January 22, 1990, 1:35 UTC
Starting place: Center Spatial Guyanais ELA-2
Launcher: Ariane-40-H10 V-35
Orbit data
Rotation time : 100.5 min
Orbit inclination : 98.5 °
Apogee height :  797 km
Perigee height :  782 km

OSCAR 17 (also Microsat 2 , DOVE , Digital Orbiting Voice Encoder and DO-17 ) is a Brazilian amateur radio satellite . It was the first satellite in Brazil and was launched on January 22, 1990 as a secondary payload with an Ariane 40 H10 rocket from the Center Spatial Guyanais . After the successful launch, the satellite was also assigned the OSCAR number 17.

Structure and payload

OSCAR 17 has the shape of a cube with an edge length of 15 cm. It has four solar cells.

Its main payload was a speech synthesizer called peacetalker for educational purposes with downlinks to 145.825 MHz and 2401.220 MHz. The satellite, which weighs around 12 kilograms, has not been in operation since March 1998.

literature

  • Anthony R. Curtis: Space Satellite Handbook. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston 1994, p. 55.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OSCAR 17 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on May 26, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ OSCAR 17 (DOVE). n2yo, May 25, 2014, accessed May 25, 2014 .
  3. ^ Gunter Krebs: DOVE (OSCAR 17, DO 17). Gunter's Space Page, May 24, 2014, accessed May 26, 2014 .
  4. ↑ EA3ATL - Eduard Garcia-Luengo: DO-17 DOVE: Digital Orbiting Voice Encoder. June 7, 2001, Retrieved May 25, 2014 (Spanish).