Mysteries in Orbit: Space's Oldest Working Hardware Still Keeps Its Secrets
Mysteries in Orbit: Space's Oldest Working Hardware Still Keeps Its Secrets
From : theregister.com on 2024-11-26The oldest functional off-Earth space hardware? Well, that is a great question for those into pub quizzes, aka bar trivia. 1977's Voyagers hold some impressive records beside those golden discs, just not that one. Any guesses? Its full name is AMSAT-OSCAR 7, known to its friends as Oscar 7, and it is remarkable for many reasons – not least of which are two great mysteries that may never be resolved. For a tiny box built on a budget that shames shoestrings for their conspicuous wealth, it pioneered some amazing technologies, got amazingly lucky more than once, and repaired itself after two decades of being dead (perhaps).
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