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: In Oct. 1957, ham radio operator Roy Welch of Dallas, Texas, tunes in to the 20 MHz radio tones of Sputnik. [More] [ <div class="dnd-atom-wrapper" data-scald-align="...
Using a simple police scanner or ham radio, you can listen to a disembodied spacesuit circling Earth. + Play Audio | ... Using a simple police scanner or ham radio, you...
from space by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). The many speckles are solar protons striking the spacecraft's digital camera. [More] Proton storms cause all...
Observatory (SOHO). The many speckles are solar protons striking the spacecraft's digital camera. [More] Proton storms cause all kinds of problems. They interfere with ham...
, photographed Feb. 7th by amateur astronomer Gary Palmer of Los Angeles. He used an 11" telescope and a digital camera. Many ham radio operators have heard these...
they were pelted by fast-moving solar protons. Our planet's magnetic field recoiled from the onslaught, and ham radio operators experienced a strong shortwave blackout....
,' " explains Rob Suggs, the leader of the MSFC Space Environments Team and one of the show's co-organizers. "It's basically a TV antenna and a ham radio receiver. Whenever a...
the decaying Proton rocket on Dec. 2nd at 0417 UT. The 217 MHz radar signal was transmitted by the Naval Space Surveillance Radar in Kickapoo, Texas. Nelson detected the echo...
ionosphere fits safely inside our planet's much-larger magnetosphere, solar wind erosion is not a problem. That's good news for ham radio operators who depend on the radio-...
Luther Burbank School in southwest Chicago after students there received a call from space. It wasn't a hail from alien creatures, but the radio transmissions were...