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Australis Oscar 5

Name: Australis Oscar 5
Price: 41.79 GBP
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Author: Owen Mace
ISBN: 9781925309812

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

by Owen Mace

Hardback
200 pages
Publisher: ATF Space
22.7 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm

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For space enthusiasts and history collectors

Details the creation of Australia's first craft

Shows you the power of student-led innovation

This premium hardback edition celebrates the remarkable technical journey of Melbourne University students launching Australia's first satellite.

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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.