{"id":4457457,"date":"2024-11-23T11:44:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T10:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/amsat-oscar-7-a-lesson-in-history\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T10:58:01","slug":"amsat-oscar-7-a-lesson-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/amsat-oscar-7-a-lesson-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"AMSAT-OSCAR-7: a lesson in history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">Did you know that the oldest, still functioning satellite in the world is an amateur radio satellite? AMSAT-OSCAR-7 was launched 50 years ago and was created with significant participation from Germany. Dr. Karl Meinzer (DJ4ZC), founder of AMSAT-Deutschland e.V., even earned his doctorate with the UV transponder (Mode-B) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/helaps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HELAPS method<\/a> he developed! Here is a short lesson on the extraordinary history of OSCAR-7 (AO-7):   <\/span><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> \n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AMSAT OSCAR 7: The Little Satellite That Could\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D6XYlq4u2Yg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n <\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p><br>Here it goes on&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/amsat-oscar-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMSAT-OSCAR 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the oldest, still functioning satellite in the world is an amateur radio satellite? AMSAT-OSCAR-7 was launched&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4438151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[252,250,425,426,424,428],"class_list":["post-4457457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-amsat-en","tag-amsat-dl-en","tag-ao-7-en","tag-helaps-en","tag-oscar-7-en","tag-small-satellite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457464,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457457\/revisions\/4457464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4438151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}