Once again Project OSCAR is hosting an AMSAT Symposium in the San Francisco Bay Area.  This year’s symposium is being held at the Windham Hotel, in San Jose, CA.

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We’re looking forward to seeing you here in Silicon Valley!

Thank you for visiting the Project OSCAR website.  Please feel free to explore the site for historical information on the early beginnings of amateur radio in space!

A full scale model of the original OSCAR satellite, built by Project OSCAR in the late 1950′s and early 1960′s and later launched in 1961 has been put on display at the Smithsonian’s Udvar Hazy Facility.

Housed in the new James S. McDonnell Space Hangar, opened for the first time on November 1, 2004,The facility was recently toured by Project OSCAR members Cliff Buttschard K7RR, Emily Clarke W0EEC and Eric Christiansen KF4OTN when they attended the AMSAT Space Symposium in October 2004. Unfortunately the new exhibit was not on display at that time.

OSCAR was joined by the thermal mass model of PCsat and an engineering model of NUSAT 1, built by students at several Utah universities.

The full scale model of the original OSCAR was donated to the Smithsonian by Project OSCAR in 1980 and previously appeared in exhibit in the Air and Space museum.