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Suitsat, Making use of old spacesuits

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Jan 26 2006, 10:17 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	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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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 NASA Image of SuitSat in Space http://www.spacer... Feb 13 2006, 08:28 AM

ljk4-1 QUOTE (Rakhir @ Feb 13 2006, 03:28 AM) NA... Feb 13 2006, 03:54 PM

ljk4-1 NASA Image of SuitSat in Space http://www.spacere... Feb 13 2006, 04:52 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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