{"id":10023,"date":"2024-11-24T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/24\/oscar-7-and-oscar-11-aka-uosat-2-did-oscar-11-do-much-the-same-thing-as-oscar-7\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:20","slug":"oscar-7-and-oscar-11-aka-uosat-2-did-oscar-11-do-much-the-same-thing-as-oscar-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/24\/oscar-7-and-oscar-11-aka-uosat-2-did-oscar-11-do-much-the-same-thing-as-oscar-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar 7&#8230; and Oscar 11 (aka UoSat-2)?  Did Oscar 11 do much the same thing as Oscar 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D6XYlq4u2Yg?si=1S8XuyEjMefwPxys?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Above is a pretty good video by Retro Rockets. Some will quibble about the technical details presented, especially about early radio, but I think the video does a pretty good job of describing the early production of ham radio satellites. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>As I watched this video however, I started to wonder if OSCAR 7 was in fact unique in coming back from the dead. Back in 2018, I watched signals from OSCAR 11 (aka UoSat -2) as it tumbled through space with its battery dead, powered by a direct connection to its solar panels: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/ghost-ship-oscar-11-tumbles-through.html\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2018\/12\/ghost-ship-oscar-11-tumbles-through.html<\/a> <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>This was what Retro Rocket said was Oscar 7&#8217;s claim to fame, right? <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>In both cases, what happened was pretty cool, but did OSCAR 11 sort of repeat the supposedly miraculous rebirth of OSCAR 7? <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above is a pretty good video by Retro Rockets. Some will quibble about the technical details presented, especially about early radio, but I think the video does a pretty good job of describing the early production of ham radio satellites. As I watched this video however, I started to wonder if OSCAR 7 was in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/24\/oscar-7-and-oscar-11-aka-uosat-2-did-oscar-11-do-much-the-same-thing-as-oscar-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oscar 7&#8230; and Oscar 11 (aka UoSat-2)?  Did Oscar 11 do much the same thing as Oscar 7?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11178,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10023\/revisions\/11178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}