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SuitSat Not Looking Good So Far

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-to-the-drawing-board dept.

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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  1. Altairian Confederation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Not going well? Not going at all. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:I hope there wasn't a monkey or by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?
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