GO-32 (TechSAT-1B – GURWIN OSCAR)
The Israeli amateur radio satellite was TechSAT 1B (GO-32) was launched with TO-31 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 10-07-1998 . The inclination of the satellite is about 98° on a sun-synchronous polar orbit at an average altitude of 820km and an orbital period of 101 minutes. The transmit power is 1 Watt (3 watt optional).
Gurwin-TechSat satellite, By its basic characteristics belongs to the micro-satellites sub-class, with mass of 50 kg and designed as a multi-purpose platform, suitable for the space research.
TechSat was equipped with 6 different devices, to carry out the on-board scientific experiments. All of them were repeatedly run during the flight, according to their respective programs. Till recently, one of them was operating non-stop (Detector of the Particles), three were periodically turned on and off (Super-conductivity Experiment, Earth Imaging System, and X-Ray detector), one failed after 10-month successful operation (Ozone Meter), and one was used only in the early phase of the mission (Laser Retro-Reflector). On-board experiments and measurements were presented in the numerous publications. We give here a brief description of satellite payload in-orbit performance, illustrated with some of the obtained results.
Uplink
145.850, 145.890 and 145.930 MHz (FM 9k6 FSK AX.25)
1269.700, 1269.800 and 1269.900 MHz
Downlink
435.325 MHz (FM 9k6 FSK AX.25)
435.225 MHz (FM 9k6 FSK AX.25)
Calls
Beacon: 4XTECH-11
BBS: 4XTECH-12
Status
Beacon active
Homepage and other references:
Official TechSat 1B website.