SEDSAT-1

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SEDSAT-1
Type: Amateur radio satellite
Country: United StatesUnited States United States
COSPAR-ID : 1998-061B
Mission dates
Dimensions: 35 kg
Begin: October 24, 1998
Starting place: Cape Canaveral LC-17
Launcher: Delta-7326 D-261
Orbit data
Rotation time : 100.7 min
Orbit inclination : 31.4 °
Apogee height :  1046 km
Perigee height :  549 km

SEDSAT-1 (also SEDSAT-OSCAR 33 ) is an American amateur radio satellite .

It was built at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and launched on October 24, 1998 as a secondary payload together with the Deep Space 1 spacecraft with a Delta II rocket at Cape Canaveral AFS Launch Complex 17 in a low earth orbit .

The 35 kg satellite is named after the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) initiative . It should make its image recordings accessible on the Internet and also be used as a linear transponder and as a digipeater for packet radio . The satellite did not function satisfactorily due to problems with the power supply.

literature

  • Mark W. Maier, Shi-Tsan Wu: SEDSAT-1 lessons learned. In: F.-B. Hsiao (Ed.): Microsatellites as research tools. Elsevier, Amsterdam 1999, pages 365-375.
  • Students for the Exploration and Development of Space Satellite. In: NASA historical data book, volume VII. Government Printing Office, Washington 2009, pages 669-671.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orbit data according to SEDSAT 1. N2YO, January 4, 2019, accessed on January 5, 2019 (English).