Mission type | Amateur radio |
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Operator | Aéro-Club de France AMSAT Rosaviakosmos |
COSPAR ID | 1997-058C |
SATCAT no. | 24958 |
Mission duration | 1-2 months |
Spacecraft properties | |
Launch mass | 4 kilograms (8.8 lb)[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 5 October 1997, 15:08:57[2] | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
Deployed from | Mir |
Deployment date | 3 November 1997, 04:05 UTC[3] |
End of mission | |
Last contact | 29 December 1997 |
Decay date | 21 May 1998 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 376 kilometres (234 mi)[4] |
Apogee altitude | 382 kilometres (237 mi)[4] |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees[4] |
Epoch | 4 November 1997 |
Sputnik 40 (Russian: Спутник 40, French: Spoutnik 40), also known as Sputnik Jr,[5] PS-2[3] and Radio Sputnik 17 (RS-17),[1] was a Franco-Russian amateur radio satellite which was launched in 1997 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite.[6] A 4-kilogram (8.8 lb)[1] one-third scale model of Sputnik 1,[7] Sputnik 40 was deployed from the Mir space station on 3 November 1997.[3] Built by students, the spacecraft was constructed at the Polytechnic Laboratory of Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria, whilst its transmitter was assembled by Jules Reydellet College in Réunion with technical support from AMSAT-France.
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