PANSAT

Mission type| Amateur radio satellite
Operator| USAF
COSPAR ID| 1998-064B
SATCAT no.| 25520
Spacecraft properties
Launch mass| 57 kg (126 lb)
Dimensions| 50 cm (20 in)
Start of mission
Launch date| 30 October 1998, 17:20 UTC
Rocket| Space Shuttle Discovery STS-95
Launch site| Kennedy LC-39B
Contractor| NASA
End of mission
Last contact| 2003
Orbital parameters
Reference system| Geocentric
Regime| Low Earth
Eccentricity| 0.00072
Perigee altitude| 551 km (342 mi)
Apogee altitude| 561 km (349 mi)
Inclination| 28.5°
Period| 95.8 minutes
Epoch| 30 October 1998[1]

OSCAR

<- OSCAR 33

OSCAR 35 ->

PANSAT (Petite Amateur Navy Satellite, also known as OSCAR 34) was an amateur radio satellite. It was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-95 mission as part of the third International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH-3) mission, on 30 October 1998 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.[2][3]

PANSAT satellite deployment from STS-95 Discovery's payload bay

The satellite was built by students from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. It offered the possibility of packet radio transmission in BPSK or Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum in the 70 cm band. The satellite was configured in a sphere-like shape, featuring 26 sides used for solar cell and antenna placement.[4] The spacecraft supplied direct-sequence, spread-spectrum modulation with an operating center frequency of 436.5 MHz, a bit rate of 9600 bit/s and 9 MB of message storage.

## References

1. ↑ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. "PANSAT". NSSDCA MAster Catalog. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/displayTrajectory.action?id=1998-064B. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
2. ↑ EOPortal.org. "PANSAT". https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/p/pansat. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
3. ↑ Dirk Krebs, Gunter. "PANSAT (S97-D, PO 34, PANSAT-OSCAR 34)". https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/pansat.htm. Retrieved 13 Feb 2020.
4. ↑ Martin, Donald H. (2000) (in en). Communication Satellites. AIAA. ISBN 978-1-884989-09-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=_azf94TByF8C&q=PANSAT+Oscar+34&pg=PA478.

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