Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
That’s right kids and cadets, the SuitSat isn’t dead, its just keeping a low profile before it burns up. The reception has been ‘in the weeds’ for many people but it’s strong enough for people to copy bits of the transmission. SuitSat.org has reception reports from Hams around the world that have been able to make out what the oddball satellite has been saying.
ARRLWeb: "SuitSat-1" Alive, But Signal Weak; "Keep Listening!" ARISS Urges
Well, it was released but only lasted a few orbits. Pretty cool idea though, using an old unserviceable space suit and some Ham gear as an impromptu satellite. I love the way it was hand lunched from ISS. As it was released, Cosmonaut Tokorev proclaimed, "Dosvidanya! Good-bye, Mr Smith!". Hopefully they will try something like this again. Wouldn’t it be interesting if the transmission failed because the batteries became too cold for them to sustain a usable output voltage? Who knows, if the suit heats up from sunlight it might squeak out a few more bits of data until it eventually re-enters and burns up.
This Friday the new Imax film, ‘Roving Mars’ comes out. I’m looking forward to seeing this soon, the vistas of the red planet should be impressive on such a big screen.
Stardust touched down prefectly early this morning. It brings with it material from interstellar space and the comet Wild 2.
In February Thailand will introduce their own version of Google Earth. The CD or web based system will use the NASA World Wide Wind map engine (a great program BTW) to provide high resolution images of the country of Thailand. Sounds very cool as I’ll be there in a few weeks, I could use a map that lets you see the city from 15 meters altitude.
On November 7th of this year scientists that were testing a telescope managed to spot an impact on the moon. This sort of this has been seen a few times before, mostly during heavy meteor showers such as the Leonids.
NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains) on Nov. 7, 2005, when a 12-centimeter-wide meteoroid slammed into the ground traveling 27 km/s.
Well that’s the cover story that ‘they’ want you to believe. What actually happened is that the UN Space Forces launched a covert strike on the hidden Nazi moon base that is located on the far side. The German research into rocket science was more successful than the scientists that we ‘liberated’ let on. Our German scientists were not the ‘best of the best’ as we would have like to have believes, not by a long shot. The real researchers were able to perfect the methods of heavy lifting needed to place large installations in space. While this was happening, a core group of technicians, scientists, and military personal that were not loyal to the party line split off an formed their own black space program towards the end of WWII. In the turmoil of the coming end of the Third Reich, they used the cover of bombing raids and the explosions of ‘sabotaged’ factories as cover while they launched their group into space and ultimately to the moon where they established a base on the far side. Over the decades the UN has detected strange signals emanating from this remote but thriving base and fear the worst; the coming of the Fourth Reich. The bright flash that these astronomers witnessed was not an impact of a chunk of rock but the explosion of a failed attempt to wipe out the moon base. The missile was deflected by a force dome or other device that protects the undoubtly evil citizens of the Nazi moon base. Fear the coming of the space Nazi invasion fleet, it’s only a matter of time until they strike!