Spacesuit Satellite

A Russian Orion spacesuit will be modified and launched from the International Space Station and become the first spacesuit satellite, the SuitSat-1. In an extraodinary display of ad-hoc design scientists equipped the spacesuit with three batteries, a radio transmitter, and internal sensors to measure temperature and battery power.



This projected was developed with NASA and the ISS by the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) group and will involve the participation of students, scouts, teachers and ham radio operators around the world.

To listen to SuitSat-1, all you will need is a big antenna and a radio receiver that you can tune to 145.990 MHz FM. A police band scanner or a hand-talkie ham radio would work just fine.