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Australis Oscar 5

Name: Australis Oscar 5
Price: 34.2 GBP
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Author: Owen Mace
ISBN: 9781925309805

The Story of How Melbourne University Students Built Australia's First Satellite

by Owen Mace

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200 pages
Publisher: ATF Space
21.6 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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For history fans and science-minded readers

Details the creation of Australia's first craft

Shows you the power of student-led innovation

Discover the inspiring true story of how a group of determined students built Australia's very first satellite in the 1960s.

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In the 1960s, a group of University of Melbourne Science and Engineering students banded together to build a satellite in their spare time. Share the journey of those students as they built Australis OSCAR 5 and had it launched into orbit by NASA in January 1970. Australis operated successfully for nearly two months before its batteries ran out. It was the first satellite built in Australia and achieved a number of important technical milestones, including over a dozen world firsts.