PAN SAT

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PAN SAT is classified as:

NORAD ID: 25520

Int'l Code: 1998-064B

Perigee: 482.6 km

Apogee: 489.9 km

Inclination: 28.5 °

Period: 94.2 minutes

Semi major axis: 6857 km

RCS: 0.2927 m² (medium)

Launch date: October 29, 1998
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: AIR FORCE EASTERN TEST RANGE (AFETR)

Uplink (MHz): 436.500
Downlink (MHz): 436.500
Beacon (MHz):
Mode: Spectrum
Call sign:
Status: Inactive

The Petite Amateur Navy Satellite (PANSAT) was a small satellite designed and built by officer students, faculty, and staff at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The main objective was to support the Space Systems and Engineering and Space Systems Operations curricula by providing a "hands-on" hardware project where exposure to the many facets of a space system development and life cycle could be experienced. PANSAT provided educational training while in orbit through a space-based laboratory for officer students at NPS. PANSAT was launched from the Shuttle into a low-Earth orbit on the STS-95 Discovery mission as part of the third International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH-3) experiment.