Radio 7 (satellite)

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Radio 7
Radio Sputnik 7
RS-7
Type: Training satellite ,
amateur radio satellite
Country: Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union
Operator: DOSAAF
COSPAR-ID : 1981-120E
Mission dates
Dimensions: 77 kg
Begin: December 17, 1981 UTC
Starting place: Plesetsk 32/2
Launcher: Cosmos-3M
Status: inactive
Orbit data
Rotation time : 119.1 min
Orbit inclination : 83.0 °
Apogee height 1668.6 km
Perigee height 1628.2 km

Radio 7 , Radio Sputnik 7 or RS-7 is a Soviet amateur radio satellite that was developed and built by the central radio club of the DOSAAF . RS-7 carries a linear transponder for the Mode A .

mission

The satellite was on 17 December 1981 together with RS-3 to RS-6 and RS-8 with a Russian Cosmos-3M - carrier rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome launched in Russia. RS3A in Moscow was named as the command station.

On August 26, 1985, a distance record of 6897 km between the stations N9CUE in Indianapolis ( QTH locator EM69xq) and KH6CC in Hawaii (BK29kg) was registered via RS-7 .

Frequencies ...

  • 145.960… 146.000 MHz uplink
  • 29.460 ... 29.500 MHz downlink
  • 29.341 MHz beacon 1
  • 29.501 MHz beacon 2

literature

  • Vern Riportella (WA2LQQ): Radio Sputnik's Alive in Orbit !!! In AMSAT Satellite Report 1981 # 23/24, December, 31
  • Martin Davidoff: The Radio Amateurs Satellite Handbook. The American Radio Relay League , 1998
  • Hans-Uwe Fortier: VHF QTC. In Funkamateur (magazine) , 1981, issue 12, page 619 and 1982, issue 2, page 100

Individual evidence

  1. Ciprian Sufitchi: Radio March 7, 31, 2019, accessed on March 31, 2019 (English).
  2. ^ Paul Stoetzer: Satellite Distance Records. 2019, accessed on March 31, 2019 .