OSCAR-7 in Scientific American

A slide show on the Scientific American website shows 10 spacecraft from decades past that are still operational.

One of those featured is OSCAR-7, built by Radio Amateurs and launched back in 1974.

The slide show can be seen at
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=old-
spacecraft-satellites

The Oscar-7 Scientific American page is at
http://tinyurl.com/kuryu9

OSCAR-7 YouTube video
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/
june2009/oscar7_video.htm

AMSAT OSCAR-7
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/n7hpr/ao7.html

Join the AMSAT Bulletin Board AMSAT-BB at
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/

Thanks to John Meeks KC8ZFN for spoting this item