SuitSat Not Looking Good So Far

Hulboy writes "According to the SuitSat website, things aren't going well for the makeshift satellite in it's first few hours. 'Reports of nothing heard from Israel, Turkey, South Africa, and two negative reports from Japan as well as the weak report below. JH3XCU reports signal only heard in SSB mode, TX cycle and doppler detectable, but no modulation... this is not looking good.'

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Altairian Confederation

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh. We thought it was trash and scooped it up. Sorry. We'll drop it off somewhere the next time we're back to probe some rednecks.

Not going well? Not going at all.

[Anonymous Coward]

Two orbits and it was fucked.

My bet: there was something aboard ISS that was unsafe (alien maybe, bad yogurt experiment, etc) that needed to be dumped ... why not stuff it in a suit, put some weak radio shit in there, and ... call it an EXPERIMENT!!! For the science and the children!! Think of the children!!!!!

  confirm you're not a script,
please type the word in this image:"tiring" ... got that right.

Re:I hope there wasn't a monkey or

[ackthpt]

some other lab animal.. that would really suck if we couldn't talk to them during their final descent.

"What they say?"

"Hot hot hot HOT! HOT!! HOT!! HOT!!! AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...."

Re:I hope there wasn't a monkey or

[AndroidCat]

No, but apparently it had one of those "Hello from planet Earth!" CDs. I'm not sure why. :^P

Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, AMSAT Vice President of Human Spaceflight, and ARISS Chairman, says SuitSat's payload will also include a CD containing hundreds of school pictures, artwork, poems, and student signatures from schools all over the world--Japan/Asia, Europe, Russia, Canada, US, South America and Africa.

Maybe the RIAA thought it had pirated MP3 files and shot it down?

No signal?

[Monkeys!!!]

Blame the airhead that is controlling the damn thing.

Re:Why the space program is failing

[AlterTick]

NOTE: You may want to get an engineer to take a look at your humour chip if you take this post seriously.

Might want to have your humor chip looked at. One way to tell when your joke is utterly lame is if even you feel the need to put "P.S. The above is a joke" at the end.

I work at ISS Mission Control in Houston...

[Anonymous Coward]

... and was able to sneak out a copy of a comm transcript. TDRS picked up the signal at S+30 minutes (*).

SuitSat (SS): (static) ... not funny guys. Houston, EVA3, do you read? ISS, EVA3, do you read? Come on guys, pick me up.

CAPCOM: EVA3, Houston. Please maintain radio silence.

SS: Houston! EVA3. EVA1 and EVA2 insisted that I maintain radio silence during my initiation, too. However, they haven't picked me up yet, and the SAFER pack does not seem to be functional.

CAPCOM: EVA3, Houston. We have lost signal from the experimental AMSAT transmitter you are carrying. Is it suffering from an obvious malfunction?

SS: I had to remove its battery to power my suit. It lost power ten minutes after I was thrown overboard.

CAPCOM: EVA3, replace the transmitter's battery. Completion of its transmission was a condition of the low fare on your secret flight.

SS: Houston, the contract didn't state that I'd be free-floating without power during the transmission!

CAPCOM: Look Bass, why do you think we only charged to for a one-way flight?

SS: GAAAAAH! F*@$ you all, and all of Houston too, you dirty (LOSS OF SIGNAL)

PAO thought we should keep this under wraps, but I think the word needs to get out. Our new adminstrator deserves a metal for this.

(*): "Spacing plus thirty minutes."

Glad I'm not the only one...

[fbg111]

NASA's Mission Control Centre in Houston, Texas, says the transmitter ceased operating very quickly after its deployment.

Darn, just like my home wi-fi network. Well I'm glad to hear NASA has trouble with these things too, makes me feel a little less inept...