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Uosat 2


Also called UO-11 or Oscar 11

General


Designation 14781 / 84021B
Launch date 1 Mar 1984
Country of origin United Kingdom
Mission Telecommunications
Perigee/Apogee 651/669 km
Inclination 97.8°
Period 98 min
Launch vehicle Thor Delta #174
Launch site Vandenberg

Function: Bulletin store and forward experiment, synthetic voice experiment, space dust and radiation experiments.

External resources


http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/clivew/oscar11.htm

Technical data



Specifications


Prime contractor University of Surrey (UK)
Platform UoSAT
Mass at launch 60 kg
Dimension 0.58 x 0.36 x 0.36 m
Stabilization 3 axis (gravity gradient, magnetorquer)
DC power BOL: 25 W (12 v, 6.4 Ah NiCd battery)
EOL: 10 W
Design lifetime 3 years

Identical to Uosat 1

Frequency chart


Downlink 1200 bps AFSK/FM (1200 and 2400 Hz tones), synthetic voice and CW.
145.826 MHz, 435.025 MHz, 2401.500 MHz
Beacon 2401.500 MHz

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