Sputnik 40
| Sputnik 40 Sputnik Jr RS-17 |
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|---|---|
| Type: | Amateur radio satellite |
| Country: |
 France Russia
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| Operator: |
Rosaviakosmos Aéro-Club de France AMSAT-France |
| COSPAR-ID : | 1997-058C |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 4 kg |
| Size: | Ball with a diameter of 23 cm |
| Begin: | November 3, 1997, 15:08:57 UTC |
| Starting place: | Baikonur Cosmodrome |
| Status: | burned up on May 21, 1998 |
| Orbit data | |
| Orbit inclination : | 51.6 ° |
| Apogee height : | 382 km |
| Perigee height : | 376 km |
Sputnik 40 (Russian: Спутник 40, French: Spoutnik 40) also Sputnik Jr, Radio Sputnik 17 and RS-17 was a French - Russian amateur radio satellite that was launched in 1997 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 , the first artificial satellite of the World that was launched. The satellite consisted of a 1: 3 scale model of the Sputnik 1 and was built by students in the polytechnic laboratory of Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria . The telemetry transmitter was manufactured by students from Jules Reydellet College in La Réunion with technical support from AMSAT France.
mission
Sputnik 40 was launched together with a replacement copy (Sputnik 40-2) on board the Progress-M 36 on October 5, 1997 and brought to the Mir space station. On 3 November 1997, the satellite was during a spacewalk the cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov commissioned and released into its own orbit. Sputnik 40 had a 250 mW telemetry transmitter which, like the original Sputnik 1, transmitted the internal temperature as a function of an audio signal. The signal was received by radio amateurs worldwide. On December 29, 1997, Sputnik 40 ceased operations after the batteries were exhausted. The satellite burned up on May 21, 1998. The replacement satellite remained on board and burned up on March 23, 2001 when the Mir crashed.
Frequencies
- 145.820 MHz FM telemetry
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gunter Krebs: Sputnik 40, 41, 99 (RS 17, 18, 19). In: Gunter's Space Page. December 11, 2017, accessed March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Andreas Bilsing: The Sputnik replica RS-17. November 23, 1997. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .