Spacetrack Directory Name | AmicalSat |
Alternative name | RS17S |
Follow AmicalSat | AmicalSat Tracker |
Pass predictions AmicalSat | Pass predictions AmicalSat |
Orbit launches | 2020-09-03 g.03:51 (4 years ago) |
Days in orbit | 1542 |
Starting point | FRGUI (Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana) |
WWW | Here |
Categories | |
Perigee | 530 km |
Apogee | 536 km |
Orbit slope (inclination) | 97.32° |
Laps per day | 16 |
Height AmicalSat | 463.72 km |
AMICal Sat is a student satellite dedicated to space weather purpose. It will monitor the auroral oval almost during each orbit. In details, it will take pictures of the aurora once at the limb to allow to get the vertical structures of the oval, once at the nadir the map the portion of the oval seen by the satellite . Scientifically the data will be used to reconstruct the flux of particles coming into the atmosphere especially the electrons in the range of 20eV-10keV.
satellite AmicalSat Date of exalting 03.09.2020y. Average height of ISS AmicalSat hundred 463.72 km. Average velocity AmicalSat is 27490.09 km/h. Inclination AmicalSat satellite 97.35°.
In the table below we show the frequencies AmicalSat.
Downlink | Mode | Call sign |
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436.100*/2415.300 MHz | 1k2*AFSK 9k6 GMSK | RS17S |
436.100 MHz | AFSK | |
2415.300 MHz | GFSK |