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SuitSat, the Glossary

SuitSat (also known as SuitSat-1, Mr. Smith, Ivan Ivanovich, RadioSkaf, Radio Sputnik, and AMSAT-OSCAR 54) was a retired Russian Orlan space suit with a radio transmitter mounted on its helmet, used as a hand-launched satellite.^[1]

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Satellites deployed from the International Space Station
Spacecraft launched in 2005
Spacecraft which reentered in 2006

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS), operating in the Amateur-satellite service, is a project sponsored by various entities and carried out by astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station who also have an amateur radio license.

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Amateur radio satellite

An amateur radio satellite is an artificial satellite built and used by amateur radio operators. SuitSat and amateur radio satellite are amateur radio satellites.

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American Radio Relay League

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the largest membership association of amateur radio enthusiasts in the United States.

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AMSAT

AMSAT is a name for various amateur radio satellite organizations worldwide.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Bauman Moscow State Technical University

The Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU; Московский государственный технический университет им.), sometimes colloquially referred as the Bauman School or Baumanka (Бауманка), is a public technical university (polytechnic) located in Moscow, Russia.

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Cape Leeuwin

Cape Leeuwin is the most south-westerly (but not most southerly) mainland point of the Australian continent, in the state of Western Australia.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Ephemerality

Ephemerality (from the Greek word ἐφήμερος, meaning 'lasting only one day') is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly.

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Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft.

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Goddard Space Flight Center

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States.

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Gruff Rhys

Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys (born 18 July 1970) is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

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Kedr

Kedr (кедр meaning Siberian pine; Yuri Gagarin's callsign during the Vostok 1 mission), also known as ARISSat 1 and RadioSkaf-2 (formerly known as SuitSat 2), was an amateur radio minisatellite operated by RKK Energia as part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station and RadioSkaf programmes. SuitSat and Kedr are amateur radio satellites and satellites deployed from the International Space Station.

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NASA TV

NASA TV (originally NASA Select) is the television service of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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Orbit

In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point.

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Orlan space suit

Cosmonaut Maksim Surayev next to two Orlan-MK models on the International Space Station Cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, next to the Orlan-M spacesuit The Orlan space suit (sea eagle) is a series of semi-rigid one-piece space suit models designed and built by NPP Zvezda.

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Satellite

A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.

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Sergey Volkov (cosmonaut)

Sergey Aleksandrovich Volkov (Сергей Александрович Волков; born 1 April 1973) is a retired Russian cosmonaut and engineer.

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Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Transmitter

In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna with the purpose of signal transmission up to a radio receiver.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuitSat

Also known as AMSAT-OSCAR 5, OSCAR 54, RadioSkaf, Suit sat, Suit satellite, SuitSat 1, SuitSat-1.