Detailed Description
Launched: September 26, 2000 aboard a converted Soviet ballistic missile from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. SaudiSat-1b was one of three Amateur Radio satellites on the same launch.
SaudiSat-1B can operate as 9600 baud digital store-and-forward systems as well analog FM repeater mode capability. One of two new ham satellites from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia built by the Space Research Institute at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
Saudisat-1B was one of the first Saudi Arabian micro satellites. It was designed and built by the Space Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
SaudiSat-1B is a low Earth orbiting Satellites designed to provide store-and-forward communications and carry several space experiments. They carry amateur radio communications payload. When opened to the public, the amateur payload will operate in mode-J.
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