OSCAR 3: Difference between revisions

[[Amateur radio satellite|Project OSCAR]] Inc. was started in 1960 by members of the TRW Radio Club of Redondo Beach, California as well as persons associated with [[Foothill College]] to investigate the possibility of putting an amateur satellite in orbit. Project OSCAR was responsible for the construction of the first Amateur Radio Satellites: [[OSCAR 1]],<ref name=nano>{{cite book|title=Nanosatellites: Space and Ground Technologies, Operations and Economics|page=496|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.|date=2020|location=Glasgow |editor=Rogerio Atem de Carvalho |editor2=Jaime Estela |editor3=Martin Langer|isbn=978-1-119-04203-7|oclc=1126347525}}</ref> launched from Vandenberg AFB in California on 12 December 1961, which transmitted a “HI” greeting in Morse Code for three weeks,<ref name = NSSDCoscar1>{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1961-034B|title=OSCAR 1|publisher=NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive|access-date=26 November 2020}}</ref> [[OSCAR 2]], [[OSCAR 3]], and [[OSCAR 4]].<ref name=nano/>