KOROLYOV
(Interfax-AVN) - The SuitSat-1 experiment, called RadioSkaf, or Radio Sputnik,
in Russian, has been successfully completed by the International Space Station
(ISS) crew, project deputy director Sergei Samburov told Interfax-AVN on Sunday.
"The
last transmission from the RadioSkaf artificial satellite was received on
February 18. The spacesuit,
outfitted with a radio transmitter, broadcast nearly 3,500 messages to the
Earth over two weeks," Samburov said.
On February
3, Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and U.S. astronaut Bill McArthur jettisoned
an old Russian
Orlan M spacesuit, empty except for electronic equipment that attracted the
attention of students and other people around the world.
The radio
transmitter broadcast recorded radio messages. The transmission was on 145.900
MHz FM, in the VHF or two-meter part of the amateur radio band. Voice
transmissions included suit data, mission time, suit temperature and battery
voltage.
SuitSat-1
was sponsored by Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, an
international working group made up of volunteers from national amateur radio
societies.
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