Hi, Anyone here planning on trying to listen in on that "Disembodied Spacesuit" (as NASA is calling it) next month? Patrick
--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
Anyone here planning on trying to listen in on that "Disembodied Spacesuit" (as NASA is calling it) next month? Patrick
Patrick, well, with the clouds I guess I'm that desperate. -:) I scanned some links below, but being radio stupid, it's unclear to me how one would go about it. What frequency - short-wave? - Canopus56 (Kurt) Suitsat-1 is sponsored by the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station group. ARISS is an organization of volunteers from national amateur radio societies around the world and the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. Related Resources Tools for Tracking Suitsat-1 http://www.amsat.org http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/ http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/jtrack/ NASA Web site http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/reference/radio/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/postsecondary/features/F_Hearing_V... ARISS Website http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Canopus56 wrote:
Patrick, well, with the clouds I guess I'm that desperate. -:) I scanned some links below, but being radio stupid, it's unclear to me how one would go about it. What frequency - short-wave?
- Canopus56 (Kurt)
Frequency is 145.990 MHz (ISS's standard frequency is 145.800). Both are in the ham 2 meter band. I understand Radio Shack scanners (also known as "police" scanners) can pick it up. As for when to listen, it's going to be chucked overboard manually so one should be able to use ISS position data for the suit for the couple of days the suit's batteries are expected to last. Assuming it goes out the hatch as planned shortly after 3:20 pm MST Friday our window of opportunity goes out to Monday afternoon. The online sites I use for satellite tracking (like heavens-above) only show ISS's visible passes so I used OrbiTrack to calculate every pass ISS will make over northern Utah during that period. Eliminating those passes that reach less than 15 degrees altitude I get: Sat 02/04/2006 03:31 Sat 02/04/2006 05:06 Sat 02/04/2006 09:54 Sat 02/04/2006 11:29 Sun 02/05/2006 03:55 Sun 02/05/2006 05:30 Sun 02/05/2006 08:42 Sun 02/05/2006 10:18 Mon 02/06/2006 02:44 Mon 02/06/2006 04:19 Mon 02/06/2006 07:31 Mon 02/06/2006 09:06 Mon 02/06/2006 10:42 Best to start listening at least 5 minutes before the above times and go another 5 minutes past those time. Could be fun, Patrick -- Patrick Wiggins NASA Solar System Ambassador to Utah & NE Nevada http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/ paw@trilobyte.net
--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote: <snip - A lot of good listening info >
Frequency is 145.990 MHz (ISS's standard frequency is 145.800). Both are in the ham 2 meter band.
There's a certain irony in the SuitSat thing - intentionally creating more space junk for dubious experiments. Young, K. 1/19/06. Critical space junk threshold approaching. New Scientist http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8608 Who knows - maybe in 10 years SuitSat will reappear - sticking out a portal - after it collides with an ascending Crew Exploration Vehicle. - Canopus56 (Kurt) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Canopus56 wrote:
There's a certain irony in the SuitSat thing - intentionally creating more space junk for dubious experiments.
Being released at 350 km it's orbit should decay pretty fast. I think I read it's expected to reenter within a few weeks. The big problem is with the higher orbits where things tend to stay a long time. An example is Vanguard 1. Launched on St. Patrick's Day in 1958, it is still in orbit today. Patrick
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