SAPPHIRE
![]() SAPPHIRE satellite | |
Mission type | Communications |
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Operator | USNA / University of Santa Clara |
COSPAR ID | 2001-043D[1] |
SATCAT no. | 26932 |
Mission duration | 2 years and 6 months |
Spacecraft properties | |
Manufacturer | Stanford University |
Launch mass | 16 kg (35 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 30 September 2001, 02:40 UTC |
Rocket | Athena 1 LM-001 |
Launch site | Kodiak LP-1 |
Contractor | Lockheed Martin |
End of mission | |
Disposal | Decommissioned |
Last contact | 2005 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Eccentricity | 0.0[1] |
Altitude | 794 km (493 mi)[1] |
Inclination | 67°[1] |
Period | 101 minutes[1] |
Epoch | 30 Sep 2001[1] |
OSCAR ← OSCAR 44 OSCAR 46 → |
SAPPHIRE (Stanford AudioPhonic PHotographic IR Experiment, also called Navy-OSCAR 45) was a satellite built by the Stanford University students in Palo Alto, California.[1]
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The satellite was launched on September 30, 2001 together with Starshine 3, PICOSat and PCSat on an Athena 1 rocket at the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, United States.
Its purpose was the training of students, the operation of an infrared sensor, a digital camera, a speech synthesizer and from 2002 the operation of an APRS digipeater.[2] He also served to train midshipmen of the US Naval Academy in the field of satellite control.
The satellite's mission ended in early 2005.
Frequencies
- Uplink: 145.945 MHz
- Downlink: 437.1 MHz
- Mode: 1200 bit/s AFSK
- Call sign: KE6QMD[3]
See also
External links
- Stanford’s First Amateur Satellite. PDF
References
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- Sicral 1, Skynet 4F
- STS-98 (Destiny)
- Odin
- Progress M-44
- USA-157
- STS-102 (Leonardo MPLM)
- Eurobird 1, BSAT-2a
- XM-2
- Ekran-M No.18L
- 2001 Mars Odyssey
- GSAT-1
- STS-100 (Raffaello MPLM)
- Soyuz TM-32
- XM-1
- PAS-10
- USA-158
- Progress M1-6
- Kosmos 2377
- Kosmos 2378
- Intelsat 901
- Astra 2C
- ICO F2
- MAP
- USA-159
- Genesis
- STS-105 (Leonardo MPLM, Simplesat)
- Progress M-45
- Kosmos 2379
- VEP-2, LRE
- Intelsat 902
- USA-160
- Progress M-SO1 (Pirs)
- OrbView-4, QuickTOMS, SBD, Odyssey
- Atlantic Bird 2
- Starshine 3, PICOSat, PCSat, SAPPHIRE
- USA-161
- Globus No.14L
- USA-162
- QuickBird-2
- Soyuz TM-33
- TES, PROBA, BIRD
- Molniya-3 No.64
- Progress M1-7 (Kolibri 2000)
- DirecTV-4S
- Kosmos 2380, Kosmos 2381, Kosmos 2382
- STS-108 (Raffaello MPLM, Starshine 2
- Jason-1, TIMED
- Meteor-3M #1, Kompass, Badr-B, Maroc-Tubsat, Reflektor
- Kosmos 2383
- Kosmos 2384, Kosmos 2385, Kosmos 2386, Gonets-D1 No.10, Gonets-D1 No.11, Gonets-D1 No.12
Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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