Archive - Mar 2003
March 4th
ISS Radio Report
March 3rd
March 2nd
AZ/EL rotator controller
ISS Radio Report
LAST MINUTES VIDEO
This video begins at 7:35 am Central Time, 17 minutes after the deorbit burn, with the shuttle over the South Pacific at an altitude of over 500,000-ft. It continues for 13 minutes to 7:48 Central Time, as the shuttle passed north east of Hawaii at approximately 250,000-ft.
March 1st
ISS Radio Report
All-ham ISS crew returning via Soyuz capsule
The ARRL Letter from The American Radio Relay League reports that the all-ham crew aboard the International Space Station will return to Earth in early May via the Russian Soyuz escape vehicle. NASA Chief Sean O'Keefe said that the 16 ISS partner countries have agreed to use the Russian capsule to ferry a new two-person crew to the station--one American and one
Russian--and to bring the current three-man crew home.
Pioneer 10 spacecraft sends last signal
The ARRL Letter from The American Radio Relay League reports that. Pioneer 10 spacecraft sends last signal: Talk about weak-signal DX! NASA
says that after more than 30 years, it appears the venerable Pioneer 10
spacecraft has sent its last signal to Earth.