UoSAT 4

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UoSAT 4
Type: Amateur radio satellite
Country: United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Operator: AMSAT-UK
COSPAR-ID : 1990-005C
Mission dates
Begin: January 22, 1990
Starting place: CSG ELA-2
Launcher: Ariane-40 V-35
Status: Out of service
Orbit data
Rotation time : 100.6 min
Orbit inclination : 98.8 °
Apogee height :  803 km
Perigee height :  788 km

UoSAT 4 (also UoSAT-OSCAR 15 ) is a British amateur radio satellite .

It was built at the University of Surrey and launched on January 22, 1990 as a secondary payload together with the French earth observation satellite Spot 2 with an Ariane 40 rocket at the Guiana Space Center (ramp ELA-2 ) into a low earth orbit .

The satellite was used for packet radio , but went out of service after two days.

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
  • Jeffrey W. Ward: A Tale of Two UoSATs. In: QST, July 1990, p. 62.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orbit data according to OSCAR 15 (UOSAT 4). N2YO, January 4, 2019, accessed January 5, 2019 .