[amsat-bb] Dimensions of AO-13

[Robert Bruninga]

But still those dimensions are wrong.  They will propogate forever until
those references are fixed.
Bob

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From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of Gregory
Beat
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2017 8:16 PM
To: n4hf.philip at gmail.com; amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Dimensions of AO-13

Philip -

The Phase 3 satellites: AO-10 and AO-13 used the same "space frame".
Dimensions noted as: 600 x 40 x 200 mm

An identical Phase 3 "ground-spare" spaceframe, was in Germany with
AMSAT-DL.
I do not know if it was ever shipped to Virginia Tech for AMSAT P3E, as
noted in this 2015 AMSAT-UK announcement.
https://amsat-uk.org/tag/p3e/

greg, w9gb
AMSAT-UK, AMSAT-NA
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I'm displaying a picture of AO-13 (my first sat QSO was on that bird) to
contrast it with a picture of the the cubesats of today

The only dimensions I'm finding for AO-13 are 600 x 40 x 200 mm...this
seems awfully small for a 92 Kg (plus another 30Kg for fuel) weight. (23.6
inches x 1.6 inches x 7.8 inches).

Were these dimensions actually in centimeters. and not millimeters?

Thanks

Philip N4HF
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