Australis OSCAR 5: The Story of how Melbourne University Students Built Australia's First Satellite

by Owen Mace

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781925309812
Publisher:	ATF Press
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Spark

Chapter 2 No Boundaries—The Times, They are a’ Changing

Chapter 3 MUAS—Our Launching Pad



Chapter 4 Australis Electronics

Chapter 6 Publicity

Chapter 7 Construction and Testing

Chapter 8 Delivery

Chapter 9 Waiting for Launch

Chapter 10 The Flight

Chapter 11 Our Lives in Space

Chapter 12 Advance Australia—Where?

Chapter 13 Postscript