Hi Ed / Dave / Group.
It seems a very long time ago now, but in the dim and distant pass ESA approved a plan to have a permanent amateur station installed inside the European Columbus module.
As a European (Well, on a little island over here) I'm almost embarrassed to mention this because having spent a lot of contributors money...and a lot of ESA's money on some very nice antennas, the organisers of this project seem to have gone into hibernation.
Occasionally, you hear rumours of plans and rumours of rumours but the reality probably is that they don't have the ability to do the job. - I always think of the scene from Life of Brian where small ineffective groups sit around plotting the overthrow of the Romans and just have endless meetings.
Sad.
Very sad.
David G0MRF
In a message dated 18/01/2012 21:04:43 GMT Standard Time, kl7uw@acsalaska.net writes:
AS I understand there are four antennas on the ISS available for ham use. So why does a package have to go outside? It can be installed inside, use ISS power, be turned on/off by astronauts at will or even unplugged? No batteries, no rocket propulsion, dangerous chemicals, no space-rated enclosure, no EVA.
Last time I propose this I was told to shut my mouth and go away.
73, Ed - KL7UW
At 08:02 AM 1/18/2012, Trevor . wrote:
PCSAT-2 did exactly that on the ISS in July 2005, however, it was returned to Earth Sep 2006.
It requires an expensive EVA to install and there may be frequency coordination issues with the two amateur radio stations already on the
ISS.
I wonder what the capabilities of the Kibo Robot Arm are ? I believe it can attach payloads to the exterior Exposed Facility (EF) with the need for an EVA.
73 Trevor M5AKA
--- On Wed, 18/1/12, Raidel Abreu Espinet cl2esp@frcuba.co.cu wrote:
From: Raidel Abreu Espinet cl2esp@frcuba.co.cu Subject: [amsat-bb] Probably a silly idea... To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Wednesday, 18 January, 2012, 16:06 Hi all,
This is probably a silly idea but who knows....
ARRISat-1 was a wonderfull satellite but with a short life. The ISS instead is a wonderfull platform, of course I know how difficult is to install inside it new radios and antennas for cross-repeaters, but how difficult is really to take a small box and firmly attach it to some low risk part of the ISS, the satellite-box will use its own power solar cells and antennas and the ISS is just the carrier.
It may be something silly but probably not difficult, if the astronauts made a "hand launch" with ARISSat-1/KEDR why can not them just hold it with latches in a low risk part of the ISS. Of course if a battery is a risk we can just design a simple system capable of work only in sun light.
If you think this is a bad idea, just ignore it, if not, well who knows, may be some day an astronaut attach an small satellite in the ISS side....
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