Editing AMSAT (section)

== Satellite names ==
Most amateur satellites do not receive their sequential OSCAR designation until after they are successfully in orbit, and then only at the request of the launching organization.<ref name="HIST"/> Regardless, amateur satellites will have been named by the organization that constructed it, and that name is frequently prepended to its OSCAR designation, resulting a name such as CubeSat-OSCAR 57. In conversation, names are usually abbreviated as CO-57 or similar.

A unique amateur satellite was [[SuitSat]], an obsolete Russian space suit with a transmitter in it, which was launched in 2006 from the [[International Space Station]]. In a twist of fate, "Oscar" was the name given to an obsolete space suit by its young owner in the 1958 novel ''[[Have Space Suit, Will Travel]]'', by [[Robert A Heinlein]]. This book was originally published a year after the launch of the first artificial satellite, [[Sputnik 1]].