Latest Amateur- Radio Satellite Is No Empty Suit

摘要

We've all heard references to clueless executives as "empty suits." But the old Russian Orion spacesuit that crew members tossed out of the International Space Station (ISS) and into free-floating Earth orbit on February 3 was anything but empty. Rather, the event marked the deployment of SuitSat-1, an unusual experiment that has thrilled amateur-radio operators worldwide (Fig. 1).