UNAMSAT B

UNAMSAT B
Type:	Research and amateur radio satellite
Country:	Mexico Mexico
Operator:	UNAM
COSPAR-ID :	1996-052B
Mission dates
Dimensions:	17 kg
Size:	23 cm edge length
Begin:	September 5, 1996, 12:47 UTC
Starting place:	Plesetsk 132/1
Launcher:	Cosmos-3M
Status:	in orbit
Orbit data
Rotation time :	104.8 min
Orbit inclination :	82.9 °
Apogee height :	1016 km
Perigee height :	971 km

UNAMSAT B (also OSCAR 30 or UO-30 ) is a Mexican amateur radio satellite .

The cube-shaped satellite with 23 cm square was at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), based on the Microsat- satellite bus of AMSAT , developed and built and on 5 September 1996 with a Cosmos-3M rocket from Plesetsk cosmodrome launched from.

The satellite was the successor to UNAMSAT-A, which had a false start in 1995.

The main payload is a radar on board for counting and measuring the speed of meteors and their trace of ionized air in the atmosphere using the Doppler effect . The meteor tracks scatter the radio waves in meteor scatter connections. The results of this experiment were stored in the BBS . The 10.7 kg satellite has a digipeater with five uplinks in the 2 meter band and downlinks in the 70 centimeter band . The COSPAR designation of OSCAR 30 is 1996-052B.

Web links

Gunter's Space Page: UNAMSAT A, b (Oscar 30, UO 30) (English)

literature

Steve Ford: The ARRL Satellite Handbook. American Radio Relay League, Newington CT 2008.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b UNAMSAT-B in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on June 2, 2014 (English).
↑ UNAMSAT. N2YO, October 21, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 .
^ Anthony R. Curtis: Space satellite handbook. Gulf Publishing, Houston 1994, 63.
^ Robert C. Harding: Space Policy in Developing Countries: The Search for Security and Development on the Final Frontier. Routledge, New York 2012, 155.
^ Scientific experiment. Programa Universitario de Investigacion y Desarrollo Espacial, archived from the original on August 16, 2006 ; accessed on June 7, 2014 (English).

[nssdc-1] UNAMSAT-B in the NSSDCA Master Catalog , accessed on June 2, 2014 (English).

[2] UNAMSAT. N2YO, October 21, 2013, accessed October 22, 2013 .

[3] Anthony R. Curtis: Space satellite handbook. Gulf Publishing, Houston 1994, 63.

[4] Robert C. Harding: Space Policy in Developing Countries: The Search for Security and Development on the Final Frontier. Routledge, New York 2012, 155.

[unam.mx-5] Scientific experiment. Programa Universitario de Investigacion y Desarrollo Espacial, archived from the original on August 16, 2006 ; accessed on June 7, 2014 (English).