SuitSat1 A Unique Satellite

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SuitSat-1 A Unique Satellite
By Gould Smith, WA4SXM
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SuitSat was proposed by Sergey Samburov at the
International ARISS meeting in Washington, DC
October 2004 to honor the 175th Anniversary of
the Bauman Moscow State Technical University
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ARISSis an international group promoting Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station
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SuitSat is an out of service Russian Orlan space
suit with an Amateur Radio transmitter
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The US ARISS group designed and built the SuitSat
controller, voice generator and switch box in a
month.
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SuitSat was adapted to the spacesuit and tested
in Russia
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SuitSat Flight Hardware ready to send to the ISS
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The flight hardware was sent to the ISS aboard a
Progress supply craft in September 2005
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Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev installs the hardware on
the Orlan space suit
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Mounting the antenna and switch box to the helmet
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SuitSat will be launched from the International
Space Station (ISS)February 3, 2006
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The Expedition 12 crew of Bill McArthur and
Valery Tokarev will manually launch SuitSat
during a spacewalk (EVA)
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SuitSat is ready for launch
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Close-up of the handmade patch and CD with
pictures
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The CD on SuitSat contains over 300 pieces of
international student art, pictures, poems and
signatures.
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Before release the switches will be flipped to ON.
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After release SuitSat will drift away from the ISS
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SuitSat will orbit the earth every 90 minutes at
a height of 360 km (223 mi), but continually
losing altitude
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The orbit will cover most of the populated areas
of the earth. So, many people can listen to the
SuitSat signal, during its short lifetime.
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Messages from SuitSat

• Voice telemetry (mission time, temperature,
  battery voltage)
• Russian message
• Europe student message (Spanish German)
• Bauman Institute message in Russian
• Canada student message in French
• Mr. Alexandrov message in English
• Japan student message in Japanese
• USA student message in English

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SSTV picture transmission
SuitSat will transmit a picture using different
tones to represent the colors. The transmission
is in Robot 36 format and it will take about 36
seconds to transmit the entire picture.
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Listening to SuitSat

• SuitSat transmissions will be weak and are on a
  frequency of 145.99 MHz.
• Schools copying the transmissions from SuitSat
  can apply for a special certificate.

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Additional Information

• http//www.suitsat.org send contact reports
• ARISS web site http//www.rac.ca/ariss
• AMSAT web site http//www.amsat.org
• http//www.issfanclub.com

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Enjoy SuitSat, a unique satellite.This is
SuitSat-1 RS0RS!