{"id":2591,"date":"2021-12-13T08:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2021-12-13T08:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:56:03","slug":"60th-anniversary-of-launch-of-first-ham-radio-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/13\/60th-anniversary-of-launch-of-first-ham-radio-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"60th anniversary of launch of first ham radio satellite&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inverse reports on the pioneering Amateur Radio satellite\u00a0<strong>OSCAR 1<\/strong>, launched 60 years ago on December 12, 1961<\/p>\n<p>The Inverse article says:<\/p>\n<p>Groups like the\u00a0<strong>Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation<\/strong>\u00a0(AMSAT), an international confederation of ham radio operators, have been flying small private satellites for years, well before the first CubeSats flew in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCubeSats actually started with AMSAT, but they didn\u2019t get a lot of credit for it, unfortunately,\u201d former Lockheed satellite technician and ham radio enthusiast\u00a0<b>Lance Ginner K6GSJ<\/b>\u00a0tells Inverse.<\/p>\n<p>Ginner would know. He was there at the very beginning, 60 years ago, for the design and launch of OSCAR 1, which was history-making in a few ways. It was:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The first smallsat<br \/>\n\u2022 The first private, non-government spacecraft<br \/>\n\u2022 The first spacecraft to hitch a ride on another launch<\/p>\n<p>It took a while, entire professional lifetimes, but virtually everything that enabled the commercial small satellite industry of the 2020s was there in an embryonic form on a Vandenberg Air Force Base launch pad on December 12, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/60-oscar-1-presaged-the-cubesat-era\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/60-oscar-1-presaged-the-cubesat-era<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inverse reports on the pioneering Amateur Radio satellite\u00a0OSCAR 1, launched 60 years ago on December 12, 1961 The Inverse article says: Groups like the\u00a0Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation\u00a0(AMSAT), an international confederation of ham radio operators, have been flying small private satellites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/13\/60th-anniversary-of-launch-of-first-ham-radio-satellite\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}