Australis Oscar 5: The Improbable Story of Australia's First Private Satellite

by Richard Tonkin and Owen Mace

In the 1960s, a group of University of Melbourne Science and Engineering students and one Law student banded together to build a satellite in their spare time. You are invited to the launch of a book that records 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925612414
• ISBN13: 9781925612417
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: ATF Press
• Length: 224 Pages