AMSAT
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AMSAT is both a generic name for Amateur Radio satellite organisations world-wide, but in particular is the name of the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation of North America (AMSAT-NA) with headquarters at Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington DC.
Other national organisations exists, such as AMSAT Germany (AMSAT-DL), AMSAT Japan, etc.
AMSAT organisations design and build, arrange launches for, and then operate (command) the OSCAR series of satellites.
AMSAT-DL has project managed and built several Amateur Radio satellites, notably AO-40.
Oscar 51 (Echo)
On the 29th of June 2004, AMSAT-NA launched a new microsat-class satellite.