UoSAT 5

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UoSAT 5
Type: Amateur radio satellite
Country: United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Operator: AMSAT-UK
COSPAR-ID : 1991-050B
Mission dates
Begin: 17th July 1991
Starting place: CSG ELA-2
Launcher: Ariane-40 V-44
Orbit data
Rotation time : 99.9 min
Orbit inclination : 98.7 °
Apogee height :  769 km
Perigee height :  757 km

UoSAT 5 (also UoSAT-OSCAR 22 ) is a British amateur radio satellite .

It was built at the University of Surrey and launched on July 17, 1991 as a secondary payload together with the earth observation satellite ERS-1 with an Ariane 40 rocket at the Guiana Space Center (ramp ELA-2 ) into a low earth orbit .

The satellite is used for packet radio .

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orbit data according to OSCAR 22 (UoSAT 5). N2YO, January 3, 2019, accessed January 5, 2019 .