UoSAT 1

UoSAT 1
Type:	Amateur radio satellite
Country:	United Kingdom
COSPAR-ID :	1981-100B
Mission dates
Dimensions:	52 kg
Size:	740 × 420 × 420 mm
Begin:	October 6, 1981, 11:27 UTC
Starting place:	Vandenberg Air Force Base SLC-2W
Launcher:	Delta 2310 D-157
Flight duration:	8 years
Status:	burned up on October 13, 1989
Orbit data
Rotation time :	92.0 min
Orbit inclination :	97.6 °
Apogee height :	374 km
Perigee height :	372 km

UoSAT 1 (also UoSAT-OSCAR 9 ) was a British amateur radio satellite .

It was built at the University of Surrey and launched on October 6, 1981 as a secondary payload together with the research satellite Solar Mesosphere Explorer with a Delta 2000 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in a low earth orbit . The re-entry took place on October 13, 1989.

The satellite sent images from its CCD camera and signals from its speech synthesizer .

literature

• Martin Nicholas Sweeting: UoSAT microsatellite missions. In: Electronics & Communication Engineering Journal, June 1992, vol. 4, no. 3, pages 141-150. doi : 10.1049 / ecej: 19920024
• John Wilson: Amateur science lives. In: New Scientist, August 11, 1983, vol. 99, no. 1370, pages 406-408.

Web links

• UoSAT 1 at AMSAT
• UoSAT 1 at SSTL ( Memento from June 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UoSAT 1 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica , accessed on April 5, 2016 (English).