Monthly Archives: August 2011

Transmittance research and performance 26th August 2011, 9pm

During the third worklab, we had been looking more deeply into the possibilities of interpretation of satellite data into art. Among the ideas that came up already in the preparation, our guests from Ljubljana – Maja Delak and Luka Princic … Continue reading

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worklab III – day 2

Day 2 at the worklab – we searched for good satellite passes beforehand, and then decided to go out from 6pm on (much too hot before that). We took the equipment, we had at hand, packed our people and some … Continue reading

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mur.sat – Live on Radio Helsinki

Beginning with tomorrow there will be a regular mur.sat show on the community radio station Radio Helsinki. The show starts at 8pm and takes 1hour. Radio Helsinki is on 92.6 MHz in Graz and can also be listened to via … Continue reading

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Worklab III at ESC 23. – 28.8.2011

Here we go again! Worklabs have shown to be a nice form for us to develop things further, and to involve more people. Many, many people involved and the team is growing. For the first day of our third worklab, … Continue reading

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Satellite Listening 18th August 2011

We are in the preparation phase for a monthly radio show at Radio Helsinki, the community radio in Graz, on 92.6 HZ.   Every last thursday in the month at 8pm, we will talk about news and updates around mursat. … Continue reading

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ISU students’ rocket launch Aug 13th, 2011

Graz hosts the 2011 International Space University ISU. A fix part of the ISU’s program is the construction and launch of newly developed rockets. 6 teams finished their rockets, with support from a NASA engineer, and they were launched from … Continue reading

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Antenna found

Update from the deployment of ARISSat-1: The antenna was found – it obviously is a different type of antenna, a coil which is inside the satellite, for more information, best to look at the amateur radios’ website amsat.org Elvis has … Continue reading

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Where is ARISSat’s 2nd antenna?

We are all set for watching two Russian ISS-cosmonauts. Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev will leave the ISS, and set ARISSat-1 free. All images here are screenshots from NASA-TV Live Stream. Sitting savely at ESC, Jakoministrasse … Continue reading

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Looking for ARISSat-1

On wednesday, 3rd of August 2011, the ARISSat-1 will be set free into orbit, on the 30th/31st of July the crew of the ISS realized some tests, and we were there. OnĀ  Sunday, 31st of July round 9am local time, … Continue reading

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