Archive - Aug 2003 - Story
August 24th
Packet System will be activated Today (Aug. 24)
Frank Bauer, KA3HDO: ...It is our understanding that sometime on Sunday (tomorrow) Yuri will be reconnecting the 2 meter equipment, turning power back on and configuring the system for packet operation on the standard packet channel.
August 23rd
ISSCOM.037 - Aug. 8, 2003 by Chris v.d. Berg
During the period in which the pass of the ISS over the Netherlands occurred during the night hours, I did not pick up any voice communications via this channel. After 21.07.03 the passes gradually took place during the evening hours and now and then VHF-1 is in use for short comm. sessions to discuss technical and operational matters.
August 22nd
News on Packet System
Frank Bauer, KA3HDO: ...Well, it should be obvious at this point that the packet is still not working. The procedure we (US and Russian teams) generated did not get uplinked to the crew. Our plans were to have a one-on-one discussion with Ed Lu around 13:00 UTC today.....
August 21st
Packet System ACTIVE on Aug. 22 at 13:00 UTC ?
Frank, KA3HDO: I don't want to raise expectations too high, but it appears that there might be an opportunity as early as 13:00 UTC tomorrow where the packet may get re-activated.....
August 19th
NASA'S EARTH CREWS TALKS WITH ISS CREW
Just before blasting back to school, NASA Earth Crew
members will travel 17,000 miles per hour with the crew of
the International Space Station.....
August 16th
First time on video : ISS crosses the sun on two consecutive orbits
Hi everyone....
On August 14 ISS crossed the sun on two consecutive orbits , as seen from NW UK.
Unusually the sky stayed clear allowing me to make a 120 mile round trip to capture both events on video.
As far as I know , this has never been done before.
You can read an account of my epic voyage , and see animations of the passes here.
http://www.satcom.freeserve.co.uk/isstrans.htm
Hope you enjoy them :O)
Best wishes
John.
August 10th
Another successful ISS contact form the UK
August 9th
ISS STATUS REPORT #03-37
The Expedition 7 crew, Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu, continued work this week with unique microgravity science experiments and maintained the operating systems of the orbiting lab.
Expedition 7 ED Lu's Latest Letter
This week I decided I'd write about some exciting new developments that could really change the whole field of space flight.