A French amateur radio operator was able to record and convert the signal of the Mar Express probe’s X-Band transmitter into an audio file. More information plus a sample of the recorded sound is available from here.
The equipment from an abandoned telecom uplink site used to listen in on the ESA’s Mars Express space probe wasn’t enough to allow download of the actual data.
“Listen here to the whistle of Mars Express as it hurtles towards Phobos and consider that this signal was generated on Mars Express by a transmitter only slightly more powerful than a light bulb.” – http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/7/1058
This is almost very exciting; a specially manufactured chair launched into space via balloon and videotaped. It’s a publiscity stunt for a new Toshiba video camera.
Not much detail on it yet, but I read the following in the printed press (Shortlist, a weekly free paper/magazine handed out in London) this morning – “The temperature dropped to -90C at 60, 000ft. The chair endured this for 70 minutes before disintegrating”, “float up from the Nevada desert to 98, 000ft above Earth”. Whilst not the best journalism, its certainly looks like it might be worth looking at.
The following is a confusing teaser currently doing the rounds on youtube.
