Archive - Oct 12, 2008
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A SSTV image from ISS received at 12Oct.
Hello All,
I just received an ISS SSTV image at 12 Oct. 2008 (16:56UTC).
Orbit number 56.702.
http://iss.ontwikkel.nl/ISSTV/12Oct2008_1656UTC_ISS_orbit_56702a.jpg
Exp. 17 crew was sended SSTV images in the Robot 36 mode for
operators on the ground testing their system.
Thanks to Sergey Samburov (RV3DR) for making this event
possible.
73's Cor PD0RKC
Ham Radio In Space: http://iss.ontwikkel.nl
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Expedition 18 Crew Launches from Baikonur
Commander Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov of the 18th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:01 a.m. EDT Sunday to begin a six-month stay in space.
Less than 10 minutes after launch their spacecraft reached orbit, and its antennas and solar arrays were deployed shortly afterward.
With Fincke, an Air Force colonel, and Lonchakov, a colonel in the Russian Air Force, is spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency.