DOVE-OSCAR
17
Satellite
Summary
Name: DOVE-OSCAR 17 aka DOVE
NASA Catalog Number: 20440
Launched: January 22, 1990
Launch vehicle: Ariane 4
Launch location: Kourou, French Guiana
Weight: 12.92 kg.
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous near-Polar LEO (Low Earth Orbit)
Inclination: 98 degrees
Size: 226 x 226 x 223 mm
Period: 100.8 Minutes
Features:
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DOVE - Digital Orbiting
Voice
Encoder
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Sponsored by AMSAT-Brazil
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Whole Orbit Data (WOD) Collection
Downlink:
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145.825 MHz FM
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2401.221 MHz (Note: 2401 MHz downlink is faulty)
Status: Non-operational
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DOVE stopped transmitting in March 1998. The satellite has not responded
to ground station control.
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The latest information is available from: AMSAT
News Service (ANS)
Description
DOVE was sponsored by AMSAT-Brazil and lead by Dr. Junior Torres DeCastro,
PY2BJO. The primary mission of DOVE is to provide an easily receivable
signal for educational institutions. Thus requiring simple equipment like
a 2 meter handheld or scanner to receive DOVE's signal. Telemetry is in
the familiar terrestrial 1200 baud AFSK AX.25 packet format requiring a
common TNC to decode.
For a more detailed description of DO-17, 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.
DOVE-17
Booklet in Italian thanks to 425DXNEWS,
the Itallian Web Resources for DXERS since 1995.
References
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D. Conners, "The PACSAT Project," ARRL Amateur Radio Second Computer
Networking Conference, pp. 1-3, March 19, 1983.
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T. Clark, "AMSAT's Microsat/Pacsat Program," Proceedings of the AMSAT-NA
Sixth Space Symposium, Atlanta, GA, pp. 41-47, Nov 1988, ARRL.
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L. Johnson and C. Green, "Microsat Project - Flight CPU Hardware,"
Proceedings
of the AMSAT-NA Sixth Space Symposium, Atlanta, GA, pp. 104-106, Nov
1988, ARRL.
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T. Clark, C. Duncan, J. King, B. McGwier, "The First Flock of Microsats,"
The
AMSAT Journal, May 1989, pp 3-10.
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D. Loughmiller and B. McGwier, "Microsat: The Next Generation of OSCAR
Satellites," Part 1, QST, May 1989, pp 37-40; Part 2, QST,
Jun 1989, pp 53-54.
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Doug Loughmiller, "Successful OSCAR Launch Ushers in the 90's,"
QST,
Apr 1990, p. 52.
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Six for the Price of One - Part I," The AMSAT Journal, Vol. 13,
No. 1, Mar 1990, p. 1; Part II: The AMSAT Journal, Vol. 13, No.
2, May 1990, p. 1.
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Steve Ford, "Working the EasySats," QST, Sep 1992, p. 30.
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John A. Magliacane, "Spotlight On: The Microsats,"
The
AMSAT Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4, Sep/Oct 1992
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Martin Davidoff, The
Satellite Experimenter's Handbook, 2nd edition, The American Radio
Relay League, Newington, CT., 1990.
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