UoSAT 1
UoSAT 1 | |
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Type: | Amateur radio satellite |
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COSPAR-ID : | 1981-100B |
Mission dates | |
Dimensions: | 52 kg |
Size: | 740 × 420 × 420 mm |
Begin: | October 6, 1981, 11:27 UTC |
Starting place: | Vandenberg Air Force Base SLC-2W |
Launcher: | Delta 2310 D-157 |
Flight duration: | 8 years |
Status: | burned up on October 13, 1989 |
Orbit data | |
Rotation time : | 92.0 min |
Orbit inclination : | 97.6 ° |
Apogee height : | 374 km |
Perigee height : | 372 km |
UoSAT 1 (also UoSAT-OSCAR 9 ) was a British amateur radio satellite .
It was built at the University of Surrey and launched on October 6, 1981 as a secondary payload together with the research satellite Solar Mesosphere Explorer with a Delta 2000 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in a low earth orbit . The re-entry took place on October 13, 1989.
The satellite sent images from its CCD camera and signals from its speech synthesizer .
literature
- Martin Nicholas Sweeting: UoSAT microsatellite missions. In: Electronics & Communication Engineering Journal, June 1992, vol. 4, no. 3, pages 141-150. doi : 10.1049 / ecej: 19920024
- John Wilson: Amateur science lives. In: New Scientist, August 11, 1983, vol. 99, no. 1370, pages 406-408.
Web links
- UoSAT 1 at AMSAT
- UoSAT 1 at SSTL ( Memento from June 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ UoSAT 1 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica , accessed on April 5, 2016 (English).