Sputnik 41
| Sputnik 41 Sputnik Jr 2 Radio Sputnik 18 (RS-18) |
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|---|---|
| Type: | Amateur radio satellite |
| Country: |
 France Russia
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| Operator: |
Aéro-Club de France AMSAT-France Rosaviakosmos |
| COSPAR-ID : | 1998-062C |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 3.5 kg |
| Size: | Ball with a diameter of 23 cm |
| Begin: | October 25, 1998, 19:30 UTC |
| Starting place: | Baikonur Cosmodrome |
| Status: | burned up |
| Orbit data | |
| Orbit inclination : | 51.6 ° |
| Apogee height : | 352 km |
| Perigee height : | 339 km |
Sputnik 41 ( Russian Спутник 41 , French Spoutnik 41 ), also Sputnik Jr 2 , Radio Sputnik 18 and RS-18 , was a French - Russian amateur radio satellite that was launched in 1998 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Aéro-Club de France and the forty-first Anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 , the world's first artificial satellite. The satellite consisted of a model of Sputnik 1 on a scale of 1: 3 and had a mass of about 3.5 kg.
mission
Sputnik 41 was launched on board the Progress-M 40 mission on October 25, 1998 and brought to the Mir space station. On 10 November 1998, the satellite was during a spacewalk the cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Avdeyev commissioned and released into its own orbit. Sputnik 41 had a 150 mW transmitter that transmitted voice messages in frequency modulation . The signal was received by radio amateurs worldwide. On December 11, 1998, Sputnik 41 ceased operations after the batteries were exhausted. On January 11, 1999, the satellite burned up.
Frequencies
- 145.8125 MHz FM
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gunter Krebs: Sputnik 40, 41, 99 (RS 17, 18, 19). In: Gunter's Space Page. November 12, 2017, accessed March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Mike Rupprecht: SPUTNIK-41 (RS-18). October 2, 2014, accessed March 24, 2019 .