{"id":416,"date":"2010-03-10T02:29:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T02:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=416"},"modified":"2010-03-10T02:29:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T02:29:27","slug":"eight-one-launch-repeater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/eight-one-launch-repeater\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-in-One Launch, With a Repeater"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today in space history, 45 years ago — March 9, 1965 — a Thor-Agena D-model rocket launched eight satellites at once from Vandenberg AFB.<\/p>\n

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\n(A 1962 Thor-Agena-D launch. USAF image from Wikimedia Commons.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nNot only was it the first time eight spacecraft had been launched at the same time, but one of those satellites — Oscar-3<\/a> — was the first solar-powered amateur radio repeater in orbit. More than a thousand amateur radio operators in 22 countries around the world used Oscar-3 (Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio) for 18 days before its transponder failed.<\/p>\n

You can read more about Oscar-3 and amateur satellite radio on this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in space history, 45 years ago — March 9, 1965 — a Thor-Agena D-model rocket launched eight satellites at once from Vandenberg AFB. (A 1962 Thor-Agena-D launch. USAF image from Wikimedia Commons.) Not only was it the first time eight spacecraft had been launched at the same time, but \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26,28,11,17],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-launch","tag-rocket","tag-space-history","tag-vandenberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}