January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
...Gas, a payload was created under the project called Orbital Syngas/Commodity Augmentation Reactor (OSCAR). The OSCAR payload. OSCAR NASA’s OSCAR project was designed to investigate waste conversion operations for trash-to-gas development specifically...
29 March 2018
Australis Oscar 5
... to build a satellite in their spare time. This book describes “the journey of those students as they built Australis OSCAR 5 and had it launched into orbit by NASA in January 1970”. Australis was significant in being the first satellite...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... the third country to launch a satellite into orbit from its own territory. During the 1970s, the OSCAR-5 satellite, constructed by a group of Australian university students, was launched by NASA, which further cemented Australia’s competence...
