[HCARC] International Space Station

[Gary and Arlene Johnson]

Thanks Bob - I signed up.  Now if we could just figure a way to bounce radio 
signals off of the ISS or maybe get AMSAT to fund putting a repeater on the 
ISS.  Put a smart repeater on it that stores the info until it gets over the 
area where the call sign indicates the message should go to and then 
downloads it over maybe a 3 day period - or whatever is commonly done by 
AMSAT Satellites.

Gary J
N5BAA
HCARC Secretary (2013)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Richie" <bob.k5yb at yahoo.com>
To: "HCARC Reflector" <HCARC at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 1:46 PM
Subject: [HCARC] International Space Station


> You can now spot the International Space Station (ISS) commanded by 
> Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams without a telescope as it passes 
> your house, thanks to NASA's new SMS service.
> "Spot the Station" will send you a text message as the ISS passes over 
> your house.
> The International Space Station is the third brightest object in the sky 
> after the Sun and the Moon, however, most people still cannot tell where 
> the orbiting laboratory is.
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>  NASA will send an email or text message to those who sign up for the 
> service a few hours before they will be able to see the space station, the 
> US space agency said in a statement.
> Once you know where to look, people should be able to see it easily – even 
> without a telescope.
> The service was launched to celebrate the 12th anniversary of crews living 
> and working aboard the station presently commanded by Williams.
> "It's really remarkable to see the space station fly overhead and to 
> realise humans built an orbital complex that can be spotted from Earth by 
> almost anyone looking up at just the right moment," said William 
> Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and 
> operations.
> "We're accomplishing science on the space station that is helping to 
> improve life on Earth and paving the way for future exploration of deep 
> space," he said.
> The station is usually at peak visibility at dawn and dusk. When skies are 
> clear, it typically appears as fast-moving point of light.
> Spot the Station will calculate the station's proximity to more than 4,600 
> positions on Earth, updating its information several time per week.
> The service will only notify users if the station is easily visible above 
> trees, buildings, and other objects.
> In order to sign up for the service one can visit NASA's website 
> http://spotthestation.Nasa.Gov.
> The crew on-board the ISS apart from Williams are Russian cosmonauts Yuri 
> Malenchenko, Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy, Japanese astronaut 
> Akihiko Hoshide and NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, all flight engineers.
>
> Bob
> K5YB
> Kerrville, TX 78028
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