OSCAR 5

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OSCAR 5
Type: Amateur radio
Country: AustraliaAustralia Australia
COSPAR-ID : 1970-008B
Mission dates
Dimensions: 15.8 kg
Size: 43 cm × 30 cm × 15 cm
Begin: January 23, 1970 UT
Starting place: Vandenberg AFB
Launcher: delta
Status: inactive
Orbit data
Rotation time : 115 min
Orbit inclination : 102 °
Apogee height :  1478 km
Perigee height :  1432 km

OSCAR 5 (also Australis , Australis-OSCAR 5 or AO-5 ) is an Australian amateur radio satellite .

It was launched on January 23, 1970 with a Thor Delta from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, as a secondary payload with the weather satellite TIROS -M.

The satellite was built by students at the University of Melbourne and transmitted telemetry signals in the 2-meter and 10-meter bands . It was the first satellite planned by AMSAT and the first amateur radio satellite whose transmitter was remotely controlled.

literature

  • David Bellair and Stephen Howard: Australis Oscar: Its design, construction and operation. QST, July 1969, pp. 58-61.
  • David Bellair and Stephen Howard: Obtaining data from Australis-Oscar 5. QST, August 1969, pp. 70, 72, 82.
  • William Dunkerley: Australis Oscar 5: The launch story. QST, April 1970, p. 61.
  • Jan King: Proposed experiments with Australis-Oscar 5th QST, December 1969, pp. 54-55.
  • Jan King: Australis Oscar 5 spacecraft performance. QST, December 1970, pp. 64-69.
  • Jan King et al .: OSCAR at 25: The amateur space program comes of age. QST, December 1986, p. 15.
  • Ray Soifer: Australis Oscar 5 ionospheric propagation results. QST, October 1970, pp. 54-57.
  • Strays. A bibliography on AO-5. QST, March 1970, p. 86.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b OSCAR 5 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on May 27, 2014 (English).