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Failed British Low Earth Orbit Satellite
UoSAT-4
, also known as
UO-15
and
OSCAR-15
, is a British satellite in
Low Earth Orbit
. It was built by a spin-off company of the
University of Surrey
,
Surrey Satellite Technology
(SSTL) and launched in January 1990 from
French Guiana
.
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UoSAT-4 was launched on the same rocket as its sister satellite,
UoSAT-3
.
[2]
Mission
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UoSAT-4 carried equipment to supplement UoSAT-3, but failed after two days in orbit.
[2]
The satellite forms part of the growing amounts of
orbital debris
orbiting around the Earth. The payload will decay in the Earth's atmosphere some time in the future.
References
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January
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February
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March
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April
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- Ofek-2
- Unnamed
- Pegsat
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USA-55
- Kosmos 2064
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Kosmos 2065
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Kosmos 2066
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Kosmos 2067
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Kosmos 2068
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Kosmos 2069
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Kosmos 2070
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Kosmos 2071
- AsiaSat 1
- USA-56
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USA-57
,
USA-58
- Foton No.6L
- Kosmos 2072
- Palapa B2R
- Kosmos 2073
- Kosmos 2074
- STS-31
(
Hubble
)
- Kosmos 2075
- Molniya-1 No.71
- Kosmos 2076
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November
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December
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Launches are separated by dots ( ? ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Crewed flights
are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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