Welcome to Orbiting Frog.
I have always loved space and to look up at te night sky. I got my first telescope at around the age of twelve and ever since, I’ve been hooked. I now own a neat little Meade ETX-70 and am studying for my PhD in Astrophysics.
I’ve made many blogs in the past couple of years but this is the first one that has purpose to it, and I have been enjoying creating it and so sought a meaningful and interesting name. It had been called Spacetimes and then The Space Place, but neither worked for me.
Then I was looking up something about the first dog in space, Laika. I found some info on Wikipedia and whilst there saw a link to a page on all animals that have been sent into space.
Among them were two bullfrogs, sent up in the Orbiting Frog Otolith. It was a special craft designed just to study the frogs as they travelled around and around the globe. You can read the article for a full explanation however it does include this diagram:
and the line “The OFO experiment continued until the seventh day in orbit, at which time the onboard battery failed. Recovery of the OFO spacecraft and FOEP hardware were not required.”
So the tale of these creatures still endlessly foating around above us inspire the name Orbiting Frog which is where you are right now.
