Has anyone heard of this? Supposivly a new tm-d700 was sent to florida. Will be going up on the next mission?? Anyone heard anything?

Hello All,

ISS crew often talking with Moscow flight control on 143.625Mhz (FM/N).
Also today (14 April) I heard crew in two passes.
20:29UTC Russian cosmonaut speaking Russian to Moscow flight control.
22:04UTC Space toerist Charles speaking english to Moscow flight control.

Most amateurs (or SWL) in europe can listen direct (via receiver) on 143.625Mhz.

People outside of europe can listen to PA3ANG (Holland) online receiver.
You can adjust online the freq. to 145.800 (FM/N) or 143.625Mhz (FM/N).
Warning!!! Please do not play with it on other times, cause many listen to other freqs!!!

HOUSTON - The crew members aboard the International Space Station were busy this week with handover operations from the Expedition 14 residents to the newly arrived Expedition 15 crew.

Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov arrived at the station Monday after a Saturday launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. With them on their Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft was Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, a U.S. businessman flying under a contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency.

Yurchikhin, Kotov and Simonyi were greeted by the station's current crew, Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and flight engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Suni Williams.

I have an idea for an experiment.
Why dont we try to track the Space Station uplinking a strong signal against it and listening to the passively reflected downlink?
I am sure that some of us could also compute the ISS trajectory and make home brew keplerian elements just examining the doppler effect.

Alain

An International Space Station ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Redmond High School, Redmond, WA on 16 April. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 21:23 UTC.

The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and ON4ISS. The contact should be audible in portions of Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English. Additional listening options are listed below.

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IRLP - Connect to the IRLP reflector 9010.
You may also connect via the IRLP Discovery website at http://www.discoveryreflector.ca/listen.htm

MOSCOW - Russians celebrated the Day of Space Exploration, or Cosmonautics Day, on Thursday with cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) treating themselves to a French cuisine dinner and unnamed governors considering whether to buy a $25 million ticket to this scientific outpost more than 186 miles (300 kilometers) above the Earth

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070412_exp15_cosmonauticsday.html