Hey all,

I had a curious thought given the news this week of Russian computer failures and NASA's inability to fully control the station's attitude using only their control momentum gyroscopes. There seems to be some well-versed ISS fans here, so maybe someone knows the answer!

So, with the Russian attitude control thrusters offline earlier in the week due to the computer failure, it was reported that NASA's control momentum gyroscopes are fully saturated and cannot keep up with the massive angular momentum of the current station. As a result, Russian thrusters are required to maintain proper attitude, kicking in whenever NASA's gyros reach capacity. (For the time being, the Space Shuttle's thrusters took over that job giving Russia time to work out their computer glitches.)

Being a bit "ignorant" of the details regarding my question, I thought that I
would post it here, and hope that someone might be able to answer, or help
me out with this!

Is it possible to use a Satellite TV-type dish to receive unscrambled Shuttle/ISS
audio from any geostationary satellites?

Also, does anyone have the locations of said geostationary satellites used for
Shuttle/ISS audio purposes?

Thanks in advance!

Mike
heymoe1@ameritech.net