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]
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
External links
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. "SAPPHIRE". Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- ↑ "SAPPHIRE (Stanford AudioPhonic Photographic IR Experiment)". eoportal.org. Retrieved 15 Feb 2020.
- ↑ "SAPPHIRE". n2yo.com. Retrieved 15 Feb 2020.
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