[57north-discuss] HackSat One ground station

[Robert McWilliam]

How are we doing with getting kit together to receive stuff from HackSat
One (and/or the rest of the swarm)?

The sprites should be being deployed around 20:00 on Sunday:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zacinaction/kicksat-your-personal-spacecraft-in-space/posts/816584

Somewhere in my feeds I came across someone else's attempts to pick up
the mother satellite with similar kit to what was discussed for us. 
http://dolske.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/satellite-radio/

In other space news the High Definition Earth Viewing experiment is now
live from ISS
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/917.html

3 out of the 4 cameras it's cycling through are pretty good (for the
sake of whoever is responsible for the fourth one I'm hoping it does
better with a night pass over somewhere with a decent collection of
cities but I haven't managed to catch one yet to see). 

And to help with figuring out what you're looking at:
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544
If you toggle on drawing the footprint that shows where the horizon is
from ISS. 

Robert
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Robert McWilliam      rmcw at allmail.net    www.ormiret.com

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