| PANSAT | |
| Mission Type: | Amateur radio satellite |
| Operator: | USAF |
| Cospar Id: | 1998-064B |
| Satcat: | 25520 |
| Launch Mass: | 57kg (126lb) |
| Dimensions: | 50cm (20inches) |
| Launch Date: | 30 October 1998, 17:20 UTC |
| Launch Rocket: | Space Shuttle Discovery STS-95 |
| Launch Site: | Kennedy LC-39B |
| Launch Contractor: | NASA |
| Last Contact: | 2003 |
| Orbit Epoch: | 30 October 1998[1] |
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
| Orbit Periapsis: | 551km (342miles) |
| Orbit Apoapsis: | 561km (349miles) |
| Orbit Eccentricity: | 0.00072 |
| Orbit Inclination: | 28.5° |
| Orbit Period: | 95.8 minutes |
| Apsis: | gee |
| Programme: | OSCAR |
| Previous Mission: | OSCAR 33 |
| Next Mission: | OSCAR 35 |
PANSAT (Petite Amateur Navy Satellite, also known as OSCAR 34) was an amateur radio satellite. It was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-95 mission as part of the third International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH-3) mission, on 30 October 1998 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.[2] [3]
The satellite was built by students from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. It offered the possibility of packet radio transmission in BPSK or Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum in the 70 cm band. The satellite was configured in a sphere-like shape, featuring 26 sides used for solar cell and antenna placement.[4] The spacecraft supplied direct-sequence, spread-spectrum modulation with an operating center frequency of 436.5 MHz, a bit rate of 9600 bit/s and 9 MB of message storage.