Old Spacesuits are Potential Satellites

SpaceAdmiral writes "In order to determine if old spacesuits can be effective satellites, the crew on the International Space Station will be throwing one overboard on February 3rd. The SuitSat will transmit information about its condition and, if you happen to have a ham radio or a police scanner, you can tune in when it passes your city! You can use NASA's J-Pass utility to determine when it will pass above you."

Comments

Yeah, good thing to do

[SpacePunk]

Yes, let's just throw another piece of junk into orbit. What's one more hurtling piece of death?

Clever twist: It ain't junk it's an experiment

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Like the "artists" that dump some rusty old cars in a pile and call it "art", are NASA dumping their junk as "experiments". Maybe they learnt it from the Japanse whalers who're still hunting whales in the interests of science.

Space belongs to everybody. Anyone dumping junk should be forced to clean it up. Once an experiment has served its purpose it should be collected. Maybe it costs a lot, but that is the true costof doing these experiments.

Re:I submitted this back on Dec 4, 2005

[kfg]

Finally? They likely didn't run it to avoid a dupe. We've been here before.

KFG