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Image:Oscar1.jpg 200px Oscar (orbiting satellite carrying amateur radio) Category:Spacecraft

... to design, build, and finance the ham satellite series known as OSCAR, for orbiting satellite carrying amateur radio. The first OSCAR rode into space from Vandenberg AFB , Calif., 12 Dec. 1961, sixtieth ... with the American Radio Relay League, national association of ham radio operators. After launch of Oscar 4, satellite activity shifted east, where AMSAT members working for GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER GSFC ...

... also engineers who worked together to design and build a small satellite that they called OSCAR. OSCAR 1 was indeed put together by a group of enthusiasts who collaborated to have this ... ). This was essentially free launch in that it was arranged as a “piggyback” operation whereby OSCAR 1 represented essentially ballast for the secret surveillance satellite launch then called the Corona 9029 ... world of university-based small satellite programs and amateur small satellite projects such as the OSCAR projects that have come from the American Radio Relay League and new small satellite projects ...

... satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Intasat ionospheric satellite for Spain, and Amsat Oscar 7 amateur radio communications satellite-from Western Test Range at 9:11 am PST on ... provided the spacecraft and would acquire experiment data. NASA provided pickaback launch and tracking. Amsat Oscar 7-the Radio Amateur Satellite Corp.'s Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio-separated from the ... .7° inclination. The seventh in a series begun with Oscar 1 in 1961, the solar-powered, octahedral, 29.5-kg Oscar 7 joined Oscar 6, launched 15 Oct. 1972, to serve as a ...

... , was preparing satellite for launch, testing and qualifying it to comply with NASA requirements. Australis Oscar-A would transmit low-power signals on two amateur bands-29.45 mhz in 10 ... for training in satellite tracking and for radio propagation experiments. Australis Oscar-A would be fifth satellite launched under Project Oscar and first accepted by NASA as secondary payload. Four previous satellites ...

... 1961, had been received from radio amateurs throughout the world. No confirmation was received that OSCAR's Morse signal was heard behind the Iron Curtain. Towns announced that the 250,000 hams would have another Oscar, tentatively set for launch sometime in late spring. Reported in Tass that a Soviet expert ...

USAF announced that OSCAR II satellite had been launched piggyback on an unidentified satellite on June 1, on behalf ... launched on December 10, 1961, advance notice was not given the Project Oscar Association on the launching of OSCAR II. Navy successfully fired a Polaris missile from submerged nuclear submarine U.S ...

... ) perigee, 115-min period, 102° inclination, and 0.02° per day orbital drift. Australis Oscar V (Oscar A) Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio, carried pickaback on 2nd stage, was successfully ejected and ... -km (891.1-mi) perigee, 115-min period, and 101,9° inclination. Oscar V was fifth in series of Oscar launches; previous spacecraft had been launched in conjunction with DOD missions. Satellite ...

... also included scanning radiometers (SRS) and single solar proton monitor (SPM) as secondary sensor. Oscar 6 (Oscar C) Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio, carried pickaback on 2nd stage for Radio Amateur Satellite ... -km (901.6-mi) perigee, 114.9-min period, and 101.7° inclination. Oscar 6 was sixth in Oscar series; previous spacecraft was launched by NASA as secondary payload with Itas 1 ...

... with Charlie Bolden and David Leestma to Hollywood to return an Oscar Academy Award . '''Duffy:''' Yes, we did. We flew an Oscar on the flight. We went out—I don’t remember ... it. But that was fun. We had done a presentation where we actually presented the Oscar on the Academy Awards show from space. We did a crew event with the Oscar there, and that was fun. I’d forgotten about that one, too. I guess I ...

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