Castaway spacesuit radio experiment still alive

BY SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: February 4, 2006

Reports that the amateur radio equipment tucked aboard the discarded Russian spacesuit launched by spacewalking astronauts Friday had stopped transmitting have proven premature, project officials said Saturday, amid reports from around the world of hearing very weak signals from the orbiting object.

International Space Station commander Bill McArthur and flight engineer Valery Tokarev fitted the wornout Orlan suit with battery-powered ham radio gear designed to broadcast pre-recorded messages in Russian, English, Japanese, Spanish, German and French, a Slow-Scan Television image and telemetry data, including the suit's temperature and the battery voltage, as part of an educational experiment.

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