PANSAT

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PANSAT
Country: United StatesUnited States United States
COSPAR-ID : 1998-064B
Mission dates
Dimensions: 57 kg
Size: 50 cm diameter
Begin: October 30, 1998, 17:20:00 UTC
Starting place: Cape Canaveral
Launcher: Space Shuttle STS-95
Status: Out of service
Orbit data
Rotation time : 95.6
Track height: 554 km
Orbit inclination : 28.45 °

PANSAT (for Petite Amateur Navy Satellite , also OSCAR 34 ) is an American amateur radio satellite .

The satellite was built by students at the Naval Postgraduate School . It offered the possibility of packet radio transmission in BPSK or Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum in the 70 centimeter band .

PANSAT was launched on October 30, 1998 during the space shuttle mission STS-95 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PANSAT in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on May 29, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ PANSAT. EOPortal.org, accessed May 29, 2014 .