UoSAT-12, which we refer to as WavSat-2, was
launched on 21 April 1999 aboard the first
orbital demonstration launch of the SS-18
DNEPR vehicle, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Built by
Surrey Satellite
Technology, Ltd. as a technology demonstrator, the satellite
carries payloads for Earth Imaging and digital communications
missions.
- Primary WavSat satellite
- Mass: 312 kg (minisatellite)
- Size: 1-m diameter x 0.85-m height
- Orbital Inclination: 64.6 degrees
- Orbital Altitude: 638 x 654 km
- Orbital Period: 98 minutes
- Two 80C386 & one 80C186 computers
- 64 MBytes solid-state SRAM
- 2 VHF uplink receivers
- 1 UHF downlink transmitter
- 9600-bps up; 9600-bps down
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