Cognitive Dissidents

It seems SuitSat is getting ready for operation.

Some enterprising people are launching an old Russian space suit out of the International Space Station in the very near future - packed only with batteries and a package of electronics to beam information back down to radio hams back on Earth.

I thought it was a novel way of recycling old space-suits - well you can hardly give them to Oxfam can you? - but then I wondered if it would add to all the space junk floating around out there - but apparently SuitSat will be in a decaying orbit and burn up within 6 weeks.

I'm not a radio ham - but I'm sure some net-savvy ham will upload transmissions to the web as time goes by - so I think we'll hear much more of SuitSat before it finally burns up in 6 weeks or so.

Tags: space junk orbital debris suitsat ham radio technology science space