Pull out your ham radios and listen to...a space suit.

Ghoulish Delight · 02-03-2006, 12:18 PM

SpuitSat-1 "launched" today.

Astronauts on the international space station have stuffed an old Russian space suit with some instrumentation and a radio transmitter. They literally just tossed it out the door of the station. For several days it will be transmitting a recorded message in 6 languages at defned intervals on a frequencey of 145.990MHz until it burns up in the atmosphere. It will aslo have some basic telemetry instrumentation (thermometer, batter power guage, etc.). The idea is to get some measurements on the effects of prolonged exposure to open space on the suit.

SuitSat-1 should pass over the US once or twice a day during its decent. You can keep tabs on it at www.suitsat.org or NASA's tracking site.

Righ now, it's about 15 minutes away from crossing over North America (though it looks like it'll mostly be over souther Canada).

EDTI: err, never mind on the current data. I guess that was some dry-run tests. The suit won't be "launched" until approx. 2PM pacific time.

02-03-2006, 12:18 PM	#1
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Pull out your ham radios and listen to...a space suit. SpuitSat-1 "launched" today. Astronauts on the international space station have stuffed an old Russian space suit with some instrumentation and a radio transmitter. They literally just tossed it out the door of the station. For several days it will be transmitting a recorded message in 6 languages at defned intervals on a frequencey of 145.990MHz until it burns up in the atmosphere. It will aslo have some basic telemetry instrumentation (thermometer, batter power guage, etc.). The idea is to get some measurements on the effects of prolonged exposure to open space on the suit. SuitSat-1 should pass over the US once or twice a day during its decent. You can keep tabs on it at www.suitsat.org or NASA's tracking site. Righ now, it's about 15 minutes away from crossing over North America (though it looks like it'll mostly be over souther Canada). EDTI: err, never mind on the current data. I guess that was some dry-run tests. The suit won't be "launched" until approx. 2PM pacific time. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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