OSCAR 27

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AMRAD OSCAR 27
AO-27
EYESAT-1
Type: Amateur radio satellite
Country: United StatesUnited States United States
Operator: AMRAD
COSPAR-ID : 1993-061C
Mission dates
Dimensions: 12 kg
Begin: September 26, 1993 UTC
Starting place: Kourou spaceport
Launcher: Ariane-40 H-10
Status: inactive
Orbit data
Rotation time : 100.7 min
Orbit inclination : 98.9 °
Apogee height :  804.1 km
Perigee height :  793.2 km

AMRAD OSCAR 27 , AO-27 is an American amateur radio payload , on board EYESAT-1 , also EYESAT A, which was developed and built by radio amateurs from the AMRAD (Amateur Radio Research and Development Corporation) organization. The satellite carries a digipeater and an amateur radio relay for FM radio.

mission

The satellite was launched on September 26, 1993 as a secondary payload with an Ariane 4 rocket in the Kourou spaceport together with SPOT-3 , Stella , Healthsat 2 , KitSat 2 , Itamsat and PoSAT-1 . After the successful launch, the satellite was assigned the OSCAR number 27.

On February 15, 2006, AO-27 registered a distance record of 5119 km between stations WD9EWK in Scottsdale , Arizona , DM33xl and VO1ONE in Mount Pearl , Canada , GN37om.

After 19 years of operation, the satellite failed on December 5, 2012.

Frequencies

  • Uplink: 145.850 MHz
  • Downlink: 436.795 MHz

literature

  • Steve Ford: AMRAD-OSCAR 27. In: QST, December 1993, 107.

Web links

  • www.ao27.org - Official website no longer available

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ciprian Sufitchi: EYESAT-1. April 1, 2019, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ National Space Science Data Center
  3. ^ Paul Stoetzer: Satellite Distance Records. 2019, accessed on March 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Frey: Launched amateur radio satellites. March 15, 2019, accessed April 3, 2019 .