WeberSat-OSCAR 18

Satellite Summary

Name: WEBERSAT-OSCAR 18 aka WEBERSAT
NASA Catalog Number: 20441
Launched: January 22, 1990
Launch vehicle: Ariane 4
Launch location: Kourou, French Guiana
Weight: 16.03 kg
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous near-Polar LEO (Low Earth Orbit)
Inclination: 98 degrees
Size: 226 x 226 x 303 mm
Period: 100.8 Minutes

Features:

Transponder: Status: Non-Operational

Description

Designed and Built by Weber State University's Center for AeroSpace Technology (CAST) in Ogden, Utah, USA.

For a description of WO-18, read John Magliacane's, KD2BD, Spotlight On: The Microsats originally published in The AMSAT Journal.

Telemetry decoding programs are available from the AMSAT anonymous ftp server. Here is a listing of Microsat Programs.

Harold Price, NK6K, has compiled a history of the Microsat program, complete with photographs.


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Last update February 2, 2002 - N7HPR