Frequency for Nasa talking to Space Shuttle?

Question

Hello, Im currently in Northern Ireland (belfast). Ive got a AR 8200 MK3 top of the range scanner and also a UBC780 XLT Base scanner also top of the range, both fitted with really high quility aerials. Does anyone know, what frequencys would I pick Nasa talking to Space-shuttle on? Or is there any websites that withhold this information. Hoping someone out there knows! Thanks

Answer 1

http://128.54.16.15/amsat/sarex/shutfreq.html
http://www.rfhill.ampr.org/shuttle_rebroadcast_frequencies.htm
http://garc.gsfc.nasa.gov/retransmission/shuttle_faq.html
http://home.cfl.rr.com/scanner/launch.htm

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

The shuttles are becoming old and might desire to be retired faster or later. Their retirement has certainly been pushed forward from 2010. different than for that, they have been challenge to numerous protection concerns, maximum fantastically mess ups like Columbia and Challenger. in addition to, they're extremely high priced and take up a extensive element of NASA's small funds. finally, even though if, they have fulfilled their challenge. The ISS is finished and we've discovered plenty from our experiemnts in Low Earth Orbit on the commute. optimistically, we are able to proceed to locate and at last deliver people to Mars, an asteroid, or return to the Moon. The plan is to do this whilst having inner maximum businesses take over the extra recurring initiatives of ferrying issues to LEO, allowing NASA to examine and strengthen out into area, ultimately sending people to Mars or asteroids. not having to fund the area commute will help unencumber money for such initiatives. New commerical spacecraft are being stepped forward and examined, and NASA is working on the Multi-purpose Cew vehicle (MPCV) for opertions previous Low Earth Orbit. till those new vehicles are deemed risk-free to hold people, the U. S. will count on Russia's Soyuz to deliver astronauts into area.

Answer 3

In the past shuttle comms were on military UHF channels, and some are used as back up should primary radio networks fail.

Now all NASA comms are on TDRS which is a fleet of sats to relay voice, data, and video to NASA sites and shuttle, space station to the ground. This is not monitorable.

For info on TDRS:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/multi/tdrs.html

Depending on conditions, you may be able to pick up the HF relay from one of the amateur groups. Other wise look at the links above to get a internet feed.

Answer 4

Here are the ham radio frequencies where the shuttle audio is rebroadcast. When they're on orbit they're on S band ( 2 GHz and the audio id digitally coded and you can't hear it. This should be your best bet.

http://www.herrons.com/users/kevin/radio/shuttle.html