Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Manual imagery

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Charles sent numerous images in rapid succession over Europe during the ~1550 UTC pass. These are manually transmitted so the interval betwe...

Automatic mode

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It appears that the VC-H1 has been left on in the window in auto mode after the crew has gone to sleep. This means it should capture and sen...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Simonyi transmitting SSTV during visit

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Some initial SSTV images were transmitted today (March 29) by Charles Simonyi using the VC-H1 unit on the ISS. Look for more images during h...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Activity on Jan 26

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Seeing a few reports that the SSTV system using the VC-H1 is active today on the International Space Station on the 145.80 downlink frequenc...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

More inside shots

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Reports from S. Africa (ZS6TW) and Florida (W5DID) indicate that SSTV images of the inside are being transmitted today. A note is visible in...
Sunday, December 7, 2008

Sunday SSTV

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The ISS was sending SSTV images using the VC-H1 today. Images included some shots of the Earth and of the crew. Expect more SSTV imagery occ...
Sunday, November 9, 2008

Richard Garriott, W5KWQ, Back on Terra Firma

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ARRL article on Richard's activities at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/11/06/10437/?nc=1
Friday, October 24, 2008

Exp. 17 and Garriott land safely

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See the NASA release for details at http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/oct/HQ_08-269_Expedition_17_landing.html
Thursday, October 23, 2008

Soyuz preparations and landing

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Late word that the powering down of the Ham Radio system has been delayed until some time around 1900 UTC today. A few of you will now have ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Preparing to say goodbye

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Richard is scheduled to depart the ISS about 0012 GMT on Friday, Oct 24 when his Soyuz capsule will undock and prepare to return to Earth. T...

ARISS SSTV server back at new host

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The ARISS SSTV web pages are back up at the http://ariss-sstv.ssl.berkeley.edu/SSTV/ site. We've been able to do some testing, but plea...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

ARISS Update October 21, 2008

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I think you all can agree that this has been a stellar and an historic week for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station! Speaking o...

Final scheduled amateur radio events completed

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Richard has now completed all of his scheduled amateur radio events and most of his other planned experiments. He should have much more free...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Richard sets new participant record

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Richard completed the sixth of the seven school contacts planned during his tour on the ISS. This is already the most every completed by a s...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Additional submissions now visible in the archives

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The ARISS SSTV Gallery continues to display some of the most current and best images submitted but an archive of other duplicates or good im...

Over the weekend

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Richard continues to have success with his school contacts and has been making general contacts including some reports that he made a few JO...
Friday, October 17, 2008

ARRL follow-up article

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ARRL has posted a follow up article on Richard's flight at http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/10/17/10392/?nc=1 An interesting bit of...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Best images from Oct 16

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Below are some of the most interesting images received Oct 16. Note the Soyuz spacecraft at the top of the images. ISS over N. America recei...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

ARISS Flight Update October 15, 2008

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All, It was quite an exciting day for ARISS yesterday with the Expedition 18 crew docking and the start up of Richard Garriott's ham rad...

First full day on ISS

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Today (Oct 15), Richard is scheduled to speak with his father in Moscow and the Mayor in Austin, Texas. He has installed the VC-H1 in the wi...