Eyesat-1  Eyesat-1 is an American experimental communications microsatellite with an store-dump payload. The mission of Eyesat 1 was experimental monitoring of mobile industrial equipment. Eyesat 1 has provided the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland, with communication services to the South Pole. Eyesat-1 carried an FM Repeater for Amateur Radio Research and Development Corporation (AMRAD) called AMRAD OSCAR 27 or OSCAR 27. Eyesat-1 was launched on September 26, 1993 with an Ariane 4 rocket at Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana, along with SPOT-3, Stella, Healthsat 2, KitSat 2, Itamsat and PoSAT-1. On February 15, 2006, a distance record of between the stations WD9EWK in Scottsdale, Arizona, DM33xl and VO1ONE in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, GN37om was registered via AO-27. After 19 years of operation, the satellite failed on December 5, 2012.