Radio Sputnik (satellite)
Radio Sputnik is a series of Soviet and Russian amateur radio satellites .
List of satellites
On October 26, 1978, the first two RS satellites, RS-1 and RS-2 , were launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome together with the Kosmos 1045 weather satellite . The satellites had their uplink in the 2-meter band and the downlink in the 10-meter band .
RS-1 was built by the Moscow Power School (MEI) , RS-2 by the Moscow State Aviation Institute (MAI) and RS-3 by the DOSAAF Central Amateur Radio Club . A number of other satellites have since been launched:
| Surname | status | begin |
international designation ( COSPAR ) |
Catalog no. ( Air Force Space Command ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS-1 | Out of service | October 26, 1978 | 1978-100B | 11085 |
| RS-2 | Out of service | October 26, 1978 | 1978-100C | 11086 |
| RS-3 | Out of service | 17th December 1981 | 1981-120A | 12997 |
| RS-4 | Out of service | 17th December 1981 | 1981-120D | 13000 |
| RS-5 | Out of service | 17th December 1981 | 1981-120C | 12999 |
| RS-6 | Out of service | 17th December 1981 | 1981-120F | 13002 |
| RS-7 | Out of service | 17th December 1981 | 1981-120E | 13001 |
| RS-8 | Out of service | 17th December 1981 | 1981-120B | 12998 |
| RS-9 | Project canceled | |||
| RS-10/11 | Out of service | June 23, 1987 | 1987-054A | 18129 |
| RS-12/13 | Out of service | 5th February 1991 | 1991-007A | 21089 |
| RS-14 (AMSAT Oscar 21) | Out of service | January 29, 1991 | 1991-006A | 21087 |
| RS-15 (Radio Rosto) | partly in operation | December 26, 1994 | 1994-085A | 23439 |
| RS-16 | burned up on October 25, 1999 | March 4, 1997 | 1997-010A | 24744 |
| RS-17 | burned up on May 21, 1998 | October 5, 1997 | 1997-058C | 24958 |
| RS-18 | burned up on January 11, 1999 | October 25, 1998 | 1998-062C | 25533 |
| RS-19 | burned up on 07/30/1999 | April 2, 1999 | 1999-015C | 25685 |
| RS-20 | in operation | November 28, 2002 | 2002-054B | 27560 |
| RS-21 | burned up on May 4th, 2002 | November 26, 2001 | 2001-051C | 27394 |
| RS-22 | in operation | September 27, 2003 | 2003-042D | 27942 |
| RS-23 (Universitetsky-1, Tatiana-1) | in operation | January 20, 2005 | 2005-002C | 28523 |
| RS-24 | Out of service | October 27, 2005 | 2005-043G | 28898 |
| RS-25 | in operation | October 27, 2005 | 2005-043D | 28893 |
| RS-28 (UgatuSat) | Out of service | 17th September 2009 | 2009-049D | 35868 |
| RS-30 (Jubilee) | in operation | May 23, 2008 | 2008-025B | 32953 |
| RS-38 (Universitetsky-2, Tatiana-2) | mission completed | 17th September 2009 | 2009-049E | 35869 |
| RS-39 (Chibis-M) | Out of service | December 21, 2011 | 2011-062C | 38051 |
| RS-40 (Jubileiny-2) | in operation | July 27, 2012 | 2012-041C | 38735 |
| RS-41 (AIST-1) | in operation | December 28, 2013 | 2013-078D | 39493 |
| RS-43 (AIST-2) | in operation | April 19, 2013 | 2013-015D | 39133 |
| RS-44 (Radio-2017, DOSAAF-85) | in operation | December 26, 2019 | 2019-096E | 44909 |
| RS-47 (Kosmos 2499) | in operation | May 23, 2014 | 2014-028E | 39765 |
| RS-48 (AIST-2D) | in operation | April 28, 2016 | 2016-026B | 41465 |
literature
- Bernie Glassmeyer: Two Russian Amateur Radio Satellites Launched. QST , December 1978, p. 54.
Web links
- Radio (Radio Sputnik) in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)