[Kzyxtalk] In space no-one can hear you scream.

[Marco McClean]

Last week a Russian student project put a mini cube-sat in orbit to 
unfold into a ten-foot-tall reflective tetrahedron and become one of the 
brightest objects in the night sky (except when it's fully in the shadow 
of Earth). Here's an article about it:
http://newatlas.com/mayak-satellite-launched/50525/

And here's a link to a satellite tracking website, to the page concerned 
with Mayak. You can see where it is in real time moving over a map of 
the world. It's 600 miles up in a polar orbit with a period of 97 
minutes, going more than 15,000 miles an hour.
http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=42830#results

(If that turns out to be only a temporary link within the site and 
doesn't work, go to http://n2yo.com and, once there, search for Mayak.)

IN OTHER NEWS, tonight I'll be doing my radio show by live remote from 
the scarred particleboard typing table next to the bed at Juanita's 
place, not from the KNYO storefront in Fort Bragg, so if you want to 
come in and play your musical instrument(s) or talk about your project, 
or whatever, make that Friday next week (July 28) when I'll be there.*

It's  325 N. Franklin (next to the Tip Top bar). Just waltz in any time 
after 9pm (Friday, next week), head for the lighted room at the back and 
get my attention.

(And if you ever write something you want read aloud on the air, email 
it to me any time during the week and I'll do that. The deadline is 
always around 5:30 or 6pm the night of the show. Tonight, for example. 
Plenty of time. No pressure.)

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio. Every Friday, 9pm to about 4am on 
107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg, including midnight to 3am 105.1fm KMEC-LP 
Ukiah. And also there and anywhere else via http://knyo.org or 
http://TuneIn.com


* (Or contact Bob Young <bobb at poetworld.net> and get your own regular 
airtime on KNYO, to do a show entirely of own devising, and never need 
to depend on me at all. Either way, it's easy and fun.)

-- 
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com