#suitsat

[humanoidhistory]

February 3, 2006 – Behold SuitSat, a retired Russian Orlan spacesuit turned into a satellite, outfitted with batteries, internal sensors, and a radio transmitter that faintly broadcast the recorded voices of school children to amateur radio operators back on Earth.

(NASA)

[explorationimages]

The February 3rd 2006 deployment of SuitSat, a decommissioned Russian spacesuit full of HAM radio gear. Watching the suit tumble away from the ISS is kind of creepy, to be honest.

[humanoidhistory]

February 3, 2006 – That’s not Sandra Bullock lost in space. It’s SuitSat, a retired Russian Orlan spacesuit turned into a satellite, outfitted with batteries, internal sensors, and a radio transmitter that faintly broadcast the recorded voices of school children to amateur radio operators back on Earth.

(NASA)

[humanoidhistory]

February 3, 2006 – That’s not Sandra Bullock lost in space. It’s SuitSat, a retired Russian Orlan spacesuit turned into a satellite, outfitted with batteries, internal sensors, and a radio transmitter that faintly beamed the recorded voices of school children to amateur radio operators back on Earth. (NASA)

[framedtruth-vellateam]

In 2006, two astronauts pushed another astronaut out of the ISS.

The strange part?

There was no body inside the suit. No face. No breathing. Nothing.

They had stuffed the suit with dirty laundry, attached antennas and a radio, and turned it into one of the first human-shaped satellites ever made.

Then the signal suddenly disappeared.

Two weeks later, the “dead astronaut” started talking again from orbit.

The Empty Man Who Orbited Earth - FramedTruth

The first time people saw the photograph, they all said the same thing. Someone is drifting away. Black space. Blue Earth curving at the edg

[talesofdrunkennessandcruelty]

Suitsat Might Be The Creepiest Satellite Ever

[spacehangout]

SuitSat-1: A Discarded Spacesuit in Low Earth Orbit

Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, a spacesuit-turned-satellite called SuitSat-1 began its orbit around the Earth after it was discarded by the Expedition 12 crewmembers from the International Space Station on Feb 3, 2006.

SuitSat, an unneeded Russian Orlan spacesuit, was filled with old clothes, a weak radio transmitter, three batteries, and internal sensors. It was released by the crew to orbit the Earth. The radio transmitter faintly transmitted recorded voices of school children to amateur radio operators worldwide.

The suit circled the Earth twice before its radio signal became unexpectedly weak. SuitSat-1 continued to orbit every 90 minutes until it burned up in the Earth's atmosphere after a few weeks.

This picture shows the lifeless spacesuit photographed in 2006 just as it drifted away from the International Space Station.

Credit: ISS Expedition 12 Crew, NASA.

[spaceexp]

SuitSat-1: A Spacesuit Floats Free

via reddit