PHASE 3B (AO-10)
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Orbit class
HEO — Highly Elliptical (Molniya, Tundra, GTO)
Operator
DLR
Country
Germany
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Jun 16, 1983
Mass
—
Apogee
35,433 km
Perigee
4,033 km
Inclination
25.90°
Period
11.66 h
Launch
Launched on Jun 16, 1983 from Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), French Guiana aboard a Ariane 1.
Ariane 1 | ECS 1 →Summary from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
AMSAT OSCAR 10 was a star-shaped German AMSAT micro-satellite. It was launched on 16 June 1983 from Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana, with an Ariane 1 rocket. This was changed to a Molniya orbit using an attached booster, to support world-wide amateur satellite communications.
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