DIY Satellite in a Suit and NASA’s Video Podcast
Published by Bre Pettis on 3 Feb 2006 at 3:04 pm.
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Today astronauts in the space station will jettison an old spacesuit that they have outfitted with a radio. They have hacked it all together from a kenwood radio and an old cosmonaut space suit. The suit sports an antenna on the helmet and will be in orbit for a few days before it runs out of batteries or gets incinerated in the atmosphere as it plumets earthwards. The “suitsat” as it is called will be transmitting a message in multiple languages for young people to decode. Besides audio, it will also transmit a slow-scan television signal. Because it’s going around the earth super fast, you can only listen for a 4-6 minutes as it cruises overhead. If you listen in, you can report that you heard it on the suitsat website! Check out the suitsat video (WMV)! While your at it, subscribe to the NASA video podcast.
