Amsat P2D (Oscar 8) [Amsat]
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Amsat P2D (Oscar 8) [Amsat] |
Amsat P2D (Oscar 8) was a radio amateur satellite launched on the 5th March 1978 at 1754UTC on a Delta-2910 with Landsat 3 and PIX 1 from Vandenberg AFB into a 903 x 917km orbit inclined at 98.99 degrees. It was box shaped with dimensions 380 x 380 x 330mm and weighs 27.2 kg. It was built by radio amateurs in the U.S., Canada, Germany and Japan, and used many of the parts left over from the Oscar-7 (Amsat P2B) project.
The primary mission was to provide an educational tool, and amateur communications. It contained a 145.90-146.00/435.1MHz (inverted) and 145.85-90/29.4-5MHz transponder using a circularly polarised VHF/UHF canted turnstile antenna system, and contained telemetry beacons on 435.095MHz and 29.402MHz using an HF dipole antenna. The battery finally failed in the middle of 1983.
| Nation: | USA |
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| Type / Application: | Amateur communication |
| Operator: | Amsat-NA |
| Contractors: | Amsat-NA |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | Cube |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 27 kg |
| Orbit: | 897 km x 914 km, 99.1° |
| Satellite | Date | LS | Launcher | Remarks: | |
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| Amsat P2D (Oscar 8, AO 8) | 05.03.1978 | Va SLC-2W | Delta-2910 | with Landsat 3, PIX 1 |
Last update: 27.09.2009
Contact: gunter.krebs@skyrocket.de
© Gunter Dirk Krebs