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Satellite Celebrates 20 Years Working in Orbit
lloydwood writes "The UoSAT-2/UO-11 small satellite was launched into low Earth orbit on 1 March 1984 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Twenty years later, it's still in orbit and operational -- and we recently found launch footage. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of starting in orbit, the original video celebrating the UoSAT-2 launch is available (in windows media and mpeg). Thrill to the computers, the clothes, and the haircuts of 1984. SSTL has launched more than twenty satellites since."
Just wait, I'm calibrating the targeting device on my low orbit space modulator.
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...it runs Unix.
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Since when do we celebrate various equipment still working? Guess I better ready for my PS2's upcoming 2 year still working anniversary!
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[Insert obligatory "1982 web servsr" joke]
With posting a 64-meg MPEG, I think we can be sure that their server won't have nearly the uptime of the satellite.
If it was made twenty years ago, wouldnt it have to be 10,000 times larger than a modern computer and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe would own them.
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Hey, some of us remember 1984, you insensitive clod!
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Now if we had hardware/software that could do that you could truely run a business with 100% SLA. Of course if you had a bewoulf of these... ...I'll get me coat
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"and the haircuts of 1984"
y /)
Those are not 1984 haircuts....Flock of Seagulls had 1984 haircuts....these are the haircuts of people that don't give a lot of wattage to personal apperance.
If they were closer to New York, we could give the Fab 5 a call! (http://bravotv.com/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Gu
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Kinda cool, actually...
Downloading at: 45 KBps
30 seconds later...
Downloading at: 40 KBps
20 seconds later...
Downloading at: 35 KBps
The race is on! Will I get the file before the server dies?!?
~D
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I had to explain to my wife that wearing it didn't mean I was old: it meant I was being post-ironic.
Although we can be reasonably well-assured that the computers were state-of-the-art at the time, the clothes and haircuts are another matter. Please remember that these are professional geeks we're talking about, and are therefore not exactly cutting edge when it comes to fashion. To all appearances it was closer to 1978 than 1984.
I know this because I was in college in 1984, and we all looked great, but these guys look like dorks.
And the brethren went away edified.
Duke Nukem: Forever was only 3 years into development.
and we recently found launch footage
Unfortunately they forgot to update the server it was originally hosted on way back in the day.
I, too, must post this anonymously.
I was that Military Man. The project to which you refer was the 'Alan Parsons Project'. We were going to put a jumbo 'laser' on the moon as part of a world domination plan. Didn't work out for some reason, I think a British agent foiled the plan or something.
I think the question should be, "what was the life expectancy for this satellite?"
Ground Control: Can you here me now?
UoSAT-2/UO-11: BEEP!!
Ground Control: Gooood!
Now listen to me, sonny. I work for the SIS, and I don't want you to ever repeat this story again. What happened was secret then, and is now. You may find your life getting a little more difficult if you tell anyone else, you see what I mean? Keep quiet.
I've ordered Taco to pull your post immediately. Remember, if you tell anyone else, we'll find you. I hear Belmarsh isn't too pleasant at this time of year.
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Now listen to me, sonny. I work for the SIS, and I don't want you to ever repeat this story again. What happened was secret then, and is now. You may find your life getting a little more difficult if you tell anyone else, you see what I mean? Keep quiet.
I've ordered Taco to pull your post immediately. Remember, if you tell anyone else, we'll find you. I hear Belmarsh isn't too pleasant at this time of year.
DAMN, I meant to post that anonymously. Now identity as a top-level agent trying to infilitrate Slashdot has been revealed.
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