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Webersat


Also called Microsat 3 or WO-18 or Oscar 18

General


Designation 20441 / 90005F
Launch date 22 Jan 1990
Country of origin United States
Mission Telecommunications
Perigee/Apogee 780/797 km
Inclination 98.6°
Period 100.6 min
Launch vehicle Ariane V35

Designed at Weber State College (Ogden, Utah, USA), based on an Amsat-NA Microsat bus

External resources


http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/nk6k/msatmain.html

sat-index articles


Technical data


Uplink 1200 bps Manchester coded (Biphase-L) FSK (FM) AX.25
145.900 MHz
  NTSC modulated ATV (not in use?)
1265.000 MHz

Downlink 1200 bps BPSK (SSB) AX.25, either one of the two frequencies below:
437.075 MHz (LHCP in northern hemisphere), normal unfiltered PSK
437.102 MHz (RHCP in northern hemisphere), Raised Cosine modulation

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