OSCAR - your own communication satellite
Abstract
The development of a series of communications satellites known as OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio) is described. Particular attention is given to the Phase II of the OSCAR project involving low-altitude polar-orbiting satellites, Phase II involving high-altitude elliptical orbits, and UOSAT, Britain's first amateur spacecraft.
- Publication:
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ITC/USA/'80; Proceedings of the International Telemetering Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980isa..conf..393P
- Keywords:
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- Communication Satellites;
- Elliptical Orbits;
- Polar Orbits;
- Radio Communication;
- Satellite Design;
- Satellite Orbits;
- Communication Equipment;
- High Altitude;
- Low Altitude;
- Satellite Control;
- Communications and Radar