{"id":3241,"date":"2021-10-06T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T22:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/the-uosat-1-story-ingenuity-teamwork-and-lots-of-favours\/"},"modified":"2021-10-06T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T22:18:44","slug":"the-uosat-1-story-ingenuity-teamwork-and-lots-of-favours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/the-uosat-1-story-ingenuity-teamwork-and-lots-of-favours\/","title":{"rendered":"The UoSAT-1 story: ingenuity, teamwork and lots of favours!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The UoSAT-1 story: ingenuity, teamwork and lots of favours!<\/h2>\n<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/uosat-1-oscar-9-team-pic_75dpi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2199\" data-attachment-id=\"2199\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2013\/05\/08\/oscar-11-still-transmitting-after-29-years\/uosat-1-oscar-9-team-pic_75dpi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/uosat-1-oscar-9-team-pic_75dpi.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"196,295\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta='{\"aperture\":\"0\",\"credit\":\"\",\"camera\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"created_timestamp\":\"0\",\"copyright\":\"\",\"focal_length\":\"0\",\"iso\":\"0\",\"shutter_speed\":\"0\",\"title\":\"\"}' data-image-title=\"UoSAT-1 OSCAR 9 Team Pic_75dpi\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;UoSAT-1 \u2013 OSCAR 9 and Team&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;UoSAT-1 \u2013 OSCAR 9 and Team&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/uosat-1-oscar-9-team-pic_75dpi.jpg?w=196\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/uosat-1-oscar-9-team-pic_75dpi.jpg?w=196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2199\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/uosat-1-oscar-9-team-pic_75dpi.jpg?w=593\" alt=\"UoSAT-1 OSCAR 9 Team\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/uosat-1-oscar-9-team-pic_75dpi.jpg 196w, https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/uosat-1-oscar-9-team-pic_75dpi.jpg?w=100 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">UoSAT-1 \u2013 OSCAR 9 and Team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>UoSAT-OSCAR-9 (UoSAT-1), developed at the University of Surrey by <strong>Martin Sweeting G3YJO<\/strong> and his team, was launched into orbit 40 years ago on October 6, 1981.<\/p>\n<p>UoSAT-1 was the first modern microsatellite with in-orbit re-programmable computers and its signals were decoded and analysed by thousands of radio amateurs, schools &amp; universities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Find out about the audacious favours Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO called in to get UoSAT-1 off the ground in 1981, and the ingenious hack he used to vibration test it using a car and Guildford High Street!<\/p>\n<p>Read the UoSAT-1 story at<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sstl.co.uk\/media-hub\/latest-news\/2021\/the-story-of-uosat-1-ingenuity-teamwork-and-lots-o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sstl.co.uk\/media-hub\/latest-news\/2021\/the-story-of-uosat-1-ingenuity-teamwork-and-lots-o<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2021\/10\/06\/the-uosat-1-story-ingenuity-teamwork-and-lots-of-favours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get The Details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>m5aka  <\/p>\n<p>AMSAT-UK<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UoSAT-OSCAR-9 (UoSAT-1), developed at the University of Surrey by Martin Sweeting G3YJO and his team, was launched into orbit 40 years ago on October 6, 1981. UoSAT-1 was the first modern microsatellite with in-orbit re-programmable computers and its signals were \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2021\/10\/06\/the-uosat-1-story-ingenuity-teamwork-and-lots-of-favours\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/the-uosat-1-story-ingenuity-teamwork-and-lots-of-favours\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-excerpt","post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-amsat","tag-amsat","tag-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necoram.com\/09132025septtangovictor98\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}