Tuesday, 31 August 2010 00:00
In a suborbital flight in March, Kentucky Space successfully tested technologies on "Frontier-1" that will be used in its orbital craft, KySat-1.
To hear the sounds Frontier-1 phoning home during its brief stay in space, right click this link at your computer and you'll be asked what you'd like to do with the file. It's a ringtone (.m4r). Save it to your local drive and play it or transfer it to your phone at a later time.
iTunes users, the file should appear in the "ringtones" folder in the application.
Wayne
Image: Phone Box and Postbox at Heath (Ian Russell) / CC BY-SA 2.0
As explained by Dr. Jim Lumpp of the University of Kentucky Space Systems Lab and Kentucky Space, the installation of the second NanoRacks Platform took place Monday, and once a stray power cable had been located, the unit, hosting a couple of new CubeLabs, was successfully powered up. Finished filming the event, Astronaut Shannon Walker turned to the camera and gave "two thumbs up." Have a listen:
