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Suitsat, Making use of old spacesuits |
 Jan 26 2006, 10:17 PM
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Disembodied Spacesuit set to orbit Earth
NASA Science News for January 26, 2006 A very strange satellite is about to go into Earth orbit. It's "SuitSat," an empty spacesuit thrown overboard from the International Space Station. Using a simple police scanner or ham radio, you can listen to SuitSat when it orbits over your hometown. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26....htm?list161084 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 13 2006, 08:28 AM
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Feb 13 2006, 03:54 PM
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QUOTE (Rakhir @ Feb 13 2006, 03:28 AM)  More images here: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images.../ndxpage11.html And from FPSPACE list, Suitsat being observed visually from Earth: Message: 3 Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:31:24 -0600 From: "Jim Oberg" <joberg@houston.rr.com> Subject: [FPSPACE] Suitsat visually observed, and also sheds debris To: <fpspace@friends-partners.org> Suitsat visually observed, and also sheds debris An object that NORAD is calling 2005-35D (obj # 28934) appears to have broken off the Suitsat two and a half days after deployment. It seems to have been identified about three days later, and the first bulletin was issued the following day. It's big enough to show up on radar, presumably, so what potential pieces of the Suitsat assembly might possibly work themselves loose in the days AFTER it was jettisoned? Meanwhile, Suitsat has been visually observed by the sharp eyes at SeeSat. Here are two of the descriptions reprinted (credit to the original observers): Tony Beresford (dberesford@adam.com.au) Date: Fri Feb 10 2006 - 06:34:32 EST This local evening at 10:47:09.8 I observed Suitsat, using predictions generated by heavens-above I found it faint but visible in 7x50 binoculars, magnitude 6.7 at a range of 465Km. This observation At the time the objects elevation was 48 degrees. It was just on nautical twilight. to be careful I ran FINDSAT on the observation and found no other objects within 20 seconds. Tony Beresford // 8597, -34.9638,138.6333E, 100m Michael Waterman (mike.waterman@web-hq.com) Date: Fri Feb 10 2006 - 17:03:41 EST Suitsat observed 060210 morning, mag 6 to 8 varying irregularly with period around 5 secs, at 480km, poor phase. 0503503211506021005192057 020 13181065 +3308 008 5 +60+80 I 0503503211506021005194678 020 13185361 +2238 006 5 U.K. Format: http://www.satobs.org/position/UKformat.html Mike Waterman mike.waterman@web-hq.com Site Yateley = COSPAR 2115 = 51.3286N 0.7950W 75m (reference OSGB36). -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 13 2006, 04:52 PM
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NASA Image of SuitSat in Space
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19587 Life Imitating Art http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2006/02/..._imitating.html "Editor's note: When I first saw the grainy TV imges of SuitSat deployment I was immediately reminded of an iconic image from the film "2001: A Space Odyssey". Now that NASA has posted better images, the comparison is even more obvious." -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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ljk4-1 Suitsat Jan 26 2006, 10:17 PM
dilo This is a very odd idea, IMHO! Jan 26 2006, 10:27 PM BruceMoomaw What will be really interesting is if a voice over... Jan 27 2006, 01:20 AM odave Sounds like contraband vodka is still making it on... Jan 27 2006, 01:32 AM
ljk4-1 They have a space-qualified and tested "devic... Jan 27 2006, 03:22 PM Bob Shaw More on this 'unmanned' spacecraft at:
ht... Jan 27 2006, 07:47 PM Canopus Nifty! Were I a school student, I'd be de... Jan 27 2006, 07:54 PM djellison Stroke of genius if you ask me, I hope some people... Jan 27 2006, 09:32 PM ljk4-1 From the FPSPACE list - some footage of an earlier... Jan 29 2006, 06:41 PM Bob Shaw The second still is nicely degraded - you can just... Jan 29 2006, 08:21 PM ljk4-1 Space Weather News for Jan. 31, 2006
http://space... Feb 1 2006, 03:34 AM ljk4-1 RELEASE: 06-09
UNUSUAL SATELLITE TRANSMITS VOICE... Feb 1 2006, 06:06 PM ljk4-1 Spacesuit goes overboard for unusual mission
Worn... Feb 1 2006, 08:23 PM ljk4-1 THIS SPACESUIT THINKS IT'S A SATELLITE (Space ... Feb 2 2006, 04:04 PM ljk4-1 ARISS Seeks School Involvement in "SuitSat... Feb 2 2006, 06:31 PM ljk4-1 Listen to the radio from an ISS spacesuit
If you ... Feb 3 2006, 03:13 PM hal_9000 SuitSat release (NASA TV).
http://rapidshare.de/f... Feb 4 2006, 01:18 AM ljk4-1 Space Weather News for Friday, Feb. 3rd
http://sp... Feb 4 2006, 01:26 AM MahFL Unfortunately Suitsat seems to be SuitSilent......... Feb 4 2006, 03:00 AM RNeuhaus As I have not read well about the SuitSat news, th... Feb 4 2006, 03:59 AM hal_9000 QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Feb 4 2006, 12:59 AM)As I h... Feb 4 2006, 08:16 AM BruceMoomaw Christ, the Russians couldn't even make THIS s... Feb 4 2006, 08:21 AM abalone QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Feb 4 2006, 07:21 PM)Chr... Feb 4 2006, 02:24 PM ljk4-1 But after only two orbits, or about three hours, S... Feb 4 2006, 02:51 PM djellison QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Feb 4 2006, 08:21 AM)Chr... Feb 5 2006, 10:06 AM Canopus Faint signals received by folks in Japan before it... Feb 4 2006, 04:04 PM BPCooper It didn't go silent, apparently. It was probab... Feb 5 2006, 02:13 AM nprev SuitSat might have been mooning the Earth (ta-da, ... Feb 5 2006, 11:04 PM ljk4-1 "SuitSat-1" Designated as AO-54; Signal ... Feb 8 2006, 05:58 PM Rakhir "SuitSat-1" Keeps on Ticking; Low Power ... Feb 15 2006, 09:05 AM ljk4-1 Suitsat radio dead; 'glovesat' lives on
C... Feb 23 2006, 05:16 PM varan Theres an outer limits episode waiting to be done ... Mar 10 2006, 02:42 PM ljk4-1 A fellow from Canada has actually filmed Suitsat a... Apr 27 2006, 06:48 PM |
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