Ham satellite broadcast celebrates 1st manned space flight
Apr 11, 2011 — views: 2717
The 50th anniversary of the first-ever manned orbital space flight, by Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, is being celebrated on April 12 with a two-day early activation of the “ARISSat-1” ham radio satellite aboard the International Space Station. If you can get your hands on a scanner or ham radio handy-talkie you can join in the celebration by listening to prerecorded messages from the satellite as it orbits the globe tonight and tomorrow.
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