windowpain's Journal: Amateur Radio Satellite in Spacesuit Set to Orbit

Later this week SuitSat is scheduled to be tossed over the side of the International Space Station during an EVA. SuitSat is a surplus Russian Orlan spacesuit fitted out with an amateur radio transceiver, a microcontroller and electronics for storing digital voice and video recordings. It was sent up to the ISS in a September cargo mission. The Kenwood TH-K2 embedded in the suit will transmit voice messages in six languages, slow-scan television (SSTV) and telemetry at half a watt on 145.990 MHz (Two meter VHF). The project's developers are hoping the onboard batteries will last as long as two weeks.