UoSAT 4
UoSAT 4 | |
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Type: | Amateur radio satellite |
Country: | 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
- ↑ Orbit data according to OSCAR 15 (UOSAT 4). N2YO, January 4, 2019, accessed January 5, 2019 .