OSCAR 24

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OSCAR 24 (also Arsene-OSCAR 24 from French Ariane Radio amateur Satellite pour l'ENseignement de l'Espace ) is a French amateur radio satellite for packet radio . It was built by employees of the French space agency CNES .

The satellite was launched on May 12, 1993 as a secondary payload together with the Astra 1C television satellite with an Ariane 4 from the Center Spatial Guyanais in Kourou and reached an elliptical orbit. After the successful launch, the satellite previously known as Arsene was assigned the OSCAR number 24. The satellite had a digipeater with three uplinks in the 70 centimeter band and one downlink in the 2 meter band . Since the downlink did not work, OSCAR 24 was used for SSB and CW connections with a downlink in the 13-centimeter band . The satellite failed completely in September 1993. Its COSPAR designation is 1993-031B.

literature

  • Steve Ford: ARSENE - An orbiting packet digipeater. In: QST, February 1993, 97.
  • Steve Ford: ARSENE - The first amateur radio satellite of 1993. In: QST, July 1993, 94.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Space Science Data Center