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Project OSCAR was responsible for launching 3 other amateur radio satellites during the 1960s: [[OSCAR 1]], [[OSCAR 2]], and [[OSCAR 4]]
In 1969, AMSAT-NA was founded by radio amateurs working at NASA's [[Goddard Space Flight Center]] and the Baltimore-Washington DC region, to continue the efforts begun by [[OSCAR|Project OSCAR]]. Its first project was to coordinate the launch of [[Australis-OSCAR 5]], constructed by students at the [[University of Melbourne]].<ref name="HIST">{{cite web | url=http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/amsat_history.php | title=Space Satellites from the World's Garage – The Story of AMSAT | publisher=AMSAT-NA | accessdate=14 February 2013 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061005160332/http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/amsat_history.php | archivedate=5 October 2006 | df= }}</ref>
Today, over fifty years later, Project OSCAR still exists as part of the San Jose (CA) Amateur Radio Club. Its mission is “To initiate and support activities that promote the Satellite Amateur Radio Hobby”. The primary goal is to reach out and provide logistical support, training and in some cases equipment to amateur radio associations, schools and the public at large.
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* First amateur satellite to operate from solar power and relay signals from Earth.
* First usage of beacon transmitters, separate from the main communications system (linear transponder).
* [[Intelsat I|Early Bird]], also known as Intelsat I, the world's first commercial communications satellite would be launched 28 days later.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/amsat_history.php |title=Space Satellites from the World's Garage -- The Story of AMSAT |last1=Baker |first1=Keith |last2=Jansson |first2=Dick |date=23 May 1994 |accessdate=15 February 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061005160332/http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/amsat_history.php |archivedate=5 October 2006 |df= }}</ref>
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