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Suitsat, Making use of old spacesuits |
 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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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
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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Feb 15 2006, 09:05 AM
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"SuitSat-1" Keeps on Ticking; Low Power Output Eyed as Cause for Weak Signal
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/02/13/3/?nc=1 |
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Feb 23 2006, 05:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Suitsat radio dead; 'glovesat' lives on
Cosmic Log - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11485023/#060222b Feb. 22, 2006 | 10 p.m. ET 'GloveSat' spotted: More than two weeks after it was pushed into orbit from the international space station, the spacesuit-turned-satellite known as SuitSat appears to have gone silent (http://www.suitsat.org/). Its amateur-radio signal never was all that strong, which came as a disappointment to many listeners around the world - but the drama surrounding SuitSat provided plenty of buzz nonetheless. In an e-mail, NBC News space analyst James Oberg reports that SuitSat itself apparently spawned a curious minisatellite of its own just a few days after its deployment: "The mystery object was detected on Feb. 11 in the routine tracking data released by NORAD, which assigned a new 'object number' to the debris on Feb. 9, showing it to be orbiting very close to the spacesuit. Amateur satellite watchers in North America and Great Britain shared their calculations with me that indicated the object's orbit had diverged from the spacesuit three days earlier, on Feb. 6 - four days after the spacesuit was jettisoned. "Space engineers I exchanged e-mail with suggested it might be one of the gloves, or the 'control box' mounted on the helmet. Now I'm being told that the 'working hypothesis' is that the object is one of those gloves, which may not have been fully 'engaged' when the suit was prepared for jettison. "The glove is even lighter than the suit and will decay even faster. The suit itself is visible to trained observers, both with binoculars and even the naked eye, but the glove would take a computer-steered telescope of some size. "Suitsat is proving to be even more interesting in its hiccups than it would have been if all had gone as planned. It's a great experiment." -------------------- "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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Mar 10 2006, 02:42 PM
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Theres an outer limits episode waiting to be done about suitsat. Suitsat becomes sentient, returns to earth (we'll gloss over how exactly) and hunts down and kills the engineers that came up with the idea.
"You left me to die in the vacuum of space! arrrrrgh!" |
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Apr 27 2006, 06:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
A fellow from Canada has actually filmed Suitsat as it passed overhead!
The quote from Spaceweather.com: REMEMBER SUITSAT? Three months ago, ISS astronauts hurled an old Russian spacesuit overboard. Amazingly, it is still orbiting Earth. On April 18th, Kevin Fetter videotaped "SuitSat" passing over his home in Brockville, Ontario, Canada: 1 MB movie. (The bright star in the movie is Vega.) Eventually, SuitSat will sink into Earth's atmosphere and disintegrate in spectacular style--a fireball--but not yet! The film is here: http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/swpod...pr06/fetter.wmv -------------------- "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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