: PANSAT was a small, tumbling satellite designed to be a "payload of opportunity".
: PANSAT was launched on October 29, 1998 , aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-95 mission. petite amateur
: The satellite's autonomous operations were managed by a digital computer using an Intel 80C186XL processor, featuring 512 KB of error-detection and correction (EDAC) RAM and 64 KB of ROM. : PANSAT was a small, tumbling satellite designed
: To demonstrate low-cost, spread-spectrum digital communications for "store-and-forward" messaging. Technical Specifications It was designed as an inexpensive
: It utilized a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communications system operating in the amateur radio frequency bands.
The was a pioneering small satellite project developed by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in the early 1990s. It was designed as an inexpensive, "store-and-forward" orbiting mailbox intended for use by the amateur radio community and as a learning platform for NPS students. Mission Overview
: It was inserted into a circular, low-Earth orbit (LEO) at an altitude of approximately 550 km and an inclination of 28.45°.