SAPPHIRE

SAPPHIRE

SAPPHIRE

U.S. amateur radio satellite

SAPPHIRE (Stanford AudioPhonic PHotographic IR Experiment, also called Navy-OSCAR 45) was a satellite built by the Stanford University students in Palo Alto, California.[1]

Athena 1 rocket launching SAPPHIRE from Kodiak Island, AK.
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The satellite was launched on September 30, 2001 together with Starshine 3, PICOSat and PCSat on an Athena 1 rocket at the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska, United States.

Its purpose was the training of students, the operation of an infrared sensor, a digital camera, a speech synthesizer and from 2002 the operation of an APRS digipeater.[2] He also served to train midshipmen of the US Naval Academy in the field of satellite control.

The satellite's mission ended in early 2005.

Frequencies

  • Uplink: 145.945 MHz
  • Downlink: 437.1 MHz
  • Mode: 1200 bit/s AFSK
  • Call sign: KE6QMD[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. "SAPPHIRE". Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  2. [2]
    "SAPPHIRE (Stanford AudioPhonic Photographic IR Experiment)". eoportal.org. Retrieved 15 Feb 2020.
  3. [3]
    n2yo.com. "SAPPHIRE". Retrieved 15 Feb 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)


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