One of the best images of the antennas mounted on Columbus is located at http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=34324. Just select the image size (S|M|L) that you want to view. Other images of the Columbus antennas are available at the ARISS-EU website (http://www.ariss-eu.org/columbus.htm)
The radio equipment to be attached at the other end of the feedline is still being discussed.
Kenneth - N5VHO
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of MKM Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:32 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: STS122 with Columbus and the ARISS-EU antennaslaunch tomorrow
Are there pictures of the actual antennas? What equipment is used for rx/tx?
On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:56 AM, Graham Shirville wrote:
Hi All,
The ARISS-Europe L/S band antennas are now mounted on the outside of Columbus which is safely located in the cargo bay of Shuttle Atlantis prior to its scheduled launch tomorrow.
The flight will be covered by NASA-TV as usual and their 150kb video stream is also available over the internet. For this flight ESA are also relaying the program(me) over the Atlantic Bird 1 satellite for viewers in Europe who have a FTA satellite system. Details from ESA are given below.
As the antennas are on the "bottom" of Atlantis they will not become visible until it has been completely removed from the cargo bay prior to mating it with the Harmony module of the ISS during the first EVA on flight day 4.
Exciting times!
73
Graham G3VZV
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