I used to have an old Popular Electronics magazine from the late 60s or early 70s that had an article on the original OSCAR ham satellite. It was cool to see that sort of ham tech going on that early. The NiCd battery pack they picture in the Hackaday article is really nostalgic for me because the PE magazine I had contained ads for a few places that were selling those same NiCd satellite battery cells. IIRC they were 2V cells at about 4 Ah and sold for around $2 a cell. I really wanted some of those, but I only discovered them about 20 years later and they were probably all dead or out of stock everywhere. They were really neat though.
I used to have an old Popular Electronics magazine from the late 60s or early 70s that had an article on the original OSCAR ham satellite. It was cool to see that sort of ham tech going on that early. The NiCd battery pack they picture in the Hackaday article is really nostalgic for me because the PE magazine I had contained ads for a few places that were selling those same NiCd satellite battery cells. IIRC they were 2V cells at about 4 Ah and sold for around $2 a cell. I really wanted some of those, but I only discovered them about 20 years later and they were probably all dead or out of stock everywhere. They were really neat though.