RS-10/11
| RS-10/11 | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Training satellite , amateur radio satellite |
| Country: |
 Soviet Union
|
| Operator: | DOSAAF |
| COSPAR-ID : | 1987-054A |
| Mission dates | |
| Begin: | June 23, 1987 |
| Starting place: | Plesetsk Cosmodrome |
| Launcher: | Cosmos-3M |
| Status: | in orbit, inactive |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 104.9 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 82.9 ° |
| Apogee height : | 1,004.1 km |
| Perigee height : | 987.7 km |
RS-10/11 is a Soviet amateur radio payload aboard Kosmos 1861 , a Zikada series satellite .
construction
The unusual double designation RS-10/11 comes because there were two amateur radio payloads. The payloads were built by radio amateurs and referred to as the "On-Board Radio Technology Complex BRTK-10". This used the power supply and the permanent attachment to the platform of the Zikada satellite. Usually one payload was in operation (mostly RS-10), while the second was kept as a reserve.
Both payloads had receivers in the 2 m band and in the 15 m band as well as transmitters in the 10 m band and 15 m band, which could be configured to a 40 kHz wide transponder with five different modes:
- A - uplink 2 m band, downlink 10 m band
- K - uplink 15 m band, downlink 10 m band
- T - uplink 15 m band, downlink 2 m band
- KA - uplink 2 m and 10 m band simultaneously, downlink 10 m band
- KT - uplink 15 m band, downlink 2 m and 10 m band simultaneously
Furthermore, a robot autotransponder could be activated. The robot autotransponder could be called by telegraph, confirmed the call, assigned a connection number, called his name (Robot) and said goodbye. The downlink transmitters had a maximum output of 5 watts.
mission
The satellite was June 23, 1987 with a Soviet Cosmos-3M - carrier rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome launched from Russia. The satellite failed in May 1997 after 9 years and 11 months of operation.
Frequencies
- Call sign: RS10
- Bake / ROBOT downlink 29.357 MHz and 29.403 MHz
- ROBOT uplink 145.820 MHz CW
- Mode A uplink 145.860… 145.900 MHz CW / SSB downlink 29.360… 29.400 MHz
- Mode K uplink 21.160… 21.200 MHz downlink 29.360… 29.400 MHz
- Mode T uplink 21.160… 21.200 MHz downlink 145.860… 145.900 MHz
- Mode KA and KT by combining the specified ranges
literature
- Bartels, Eike: Der double satellite RS-10/11, Funkamateur 1988, issue 5, page 249
- Davidoff, Martin: The Radio Amateurs Satellite Handbook, The American Radio Relay League, 1998
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ciprian Sufitchi: COSMOS 1861. December 29, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2018 (English).