Lusat |
Argentina |
Spacecraft n°: |
Argentinian satellite n°: 1 |
| Designation | 20442 / 90005G |
| Launch date | 22 Jan 1990 - 01:35 UT |
| Launch site | Ko, ELA-2 |
| Launch vehicle | Ariane-40 (V35) |
| Mission | Telecommunications |
| Earth orbit on: | |
| Perigee/Apogee | 779/797 km |
| Inclination | 98.6° |
| Period | 100.6 min |
| Prime manufacturer | |
| Platform | Amsat-NA Microsat bus |
| Operator | AMSAT Argentina |
| Mass at launch | 9 kg (14 kg?) |
| Dry Mass | kg |
| Basic shape | |
| Dimension (m) | |
| Equipment | |
| Solar array | None, solar cells |
| Stabilization | Passive stabilization |
| Propulsion | |
| DC power | |
| Design lifetime |
| Uplink | 1200 bps Manchester coded (Biphase-L) FSK (FM) AX.25 145.840 145.860 145.880 145.900 MHz |
| Downlink | 1200 bps BPSK (SSB) AX.25, either one of the two frequencies below: 437.154 MHz (LHCP in northern hemisphere), normal unfiltered PSK 437.126 MHz (RHCP in northern hemisphere), Raised Cosine modulation |
| CW beacon | 437.126 MHz (when active) |