ARSENE

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ARSENE is classified as:

Amateur radio

NORAD ID: 22654

Int'l Code: 1993-031B

Perigee: 17,620.6 km

Apogee: 36,444.8 km

Inclination: 4.0 °

Period: 1,012.6 minutes

Semi major axis: 33403 km

RCS: 0.3221 m² (medium)

Launch date: May 12, 1993
Source: France (FR)
Launch site: FRENCH GUIANA (FRGUI)

Uplink (MHz):
Downlink (MHz): 145.975
Beacon (MHz): 2446.540
Mode: 1200bps AFSK
Call sign:
Status: Inactive

ARSENE was a French amateur radio relay spacecraft launched by an Ariane 4 rocket from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana. It was built by university students. Some of the systems were to serve as prototypes for future small communications satellites. Unfortunately, the VHF antenna failed immediately after launch, and operations with the vehicle's SHF antenna ultimately led to power supply problems and loss of the 154-kg spacecraft after only three months in orbit.

1 22654U 93031B   24140.49016353 -.00000084  00000-0  00000-0 0  9990
2 22654   4.0221  69.6281 2817679 283.9547 256.9696  1.42203636156631

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC