UoSAT 2

UoSAT 2
Type:	Amateur radio satellite
Country:	United Kingdom
Operator:	AMSAT -UK
COSPAR-ID :	1984-021B
Mission dates
Begin:	March 1, 1984
Starting place:	Vandenberg Air Force Base SLC-2W
Launcher:	Delta 3920 D-174
Orbit data
Rotation time :	97.1 min
Orbit inclination :	97.6 °
Apogee height :	634 km
Perigee height :	620 km

Cumulative satellite memory errors in the South Atlantic Anomaly area

UoSAT 2 (also UoSAT-OSCAR 11 ) is a British amateur radio satellite .

It was built at the University of Surrey and launched on March 1, 1984 as a secondary payload together with the Earth observation satellite Landsat 5 with a Delta 3920 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in a low earth orbit .

The satellite sends images from its CCD camera as well as signals from its speech synthesizer . This was also used to inform the Soviet-Canadian expedition, which reached the North Pole on skis in 1988, of their location determined with COSPAS-SARSAT , as GPS navigation was not yet in use at the time.

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

Web links

• UOSAT ( Memento from March 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at AMSAT-UK
• UoSAT 2 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OSCAR 11 (UoSAT 2). N2YO, January 4, 2019, accessed January 5, 2019 .