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Correction:
This is the correct TLE Data for SuitSat.
The other data was for tracked SuitSat debris.

SUITSAT
1 28933U 05035C 06143.68047588 +.00067307 +00000-0 +26468-3 0 01576
2 28933 051.6385 309.7860 0007271 285.2582 074.7638 15.86218867017181

no re-entry date given.

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Hum,
strangely, the American Radio Relay League website is reporting that SuitSat-1--the Russian Orlan spacesuit --is likely to fall into Earth's atmosphere and burn up in a few weeks.

"The orbit life is dependent on the atmospheric drag that the satellite experiences" - Frank Bauer, ARISS International Chairman , KA3HDO.

An analysis done prior to its deployment predicted a 70 to 120-day orbital life for SuitSat-1. That suggests the end should come by sometime in early June at the latest.

Read more

Elsewhere it was reported to have decayed on March 20th 2006.

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Updated re-entry date: 19th March 2006

TLE Data

SUITSAT DEB
1 28934U 05035D 06076.03330466 .01357192 11195-2 18451-2 0 756
2 28934 051.6319 298.3001 0009065 258.2069 101.9736 16.05832345 5838
1 28934U 05035D 06075.84657952 .01193069 81354-3 16718-2 0 745
2 28934 051.6515 299.3336 0013911 240.4962 119.5824 16.05144777 5803
1 28934U 05035D 06075.03680643 .00959812 47918-3 15327-2 0 736
2 28934 051.6246 303.6217 0005944 265.9838 094.0579 16.03084373 5674
1 28934U 05035D 06074.91212446 +.00944478 +46061-3 +15294-2 0 00737
2 28934 051.6259 304.2855 0006567 274.3460 085.6796 16.02838944005655
1 28934U 05035D 06074.84977643 .00937794 45259-3 15290-2 0 722
2 28934 051.6259 304.6193 0006736 273.9889 086.0383 16.02719507 5641

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SuitSat Re-entry
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The SUITSAT mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 17th March 2006.


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TLE Data:

SUITSAT DEB
1 28934U 05035D 06060.35942931 .00380723 00000-0 14385-2 0 387
2 28934 051.6439 021.1777 0001094 299.8124 060.2905 15.86148701 3332
1 28934U 05035D 06060.17041735 .00376303 00000-0 14324-2 0 370
2 28934 051.6446 022.1628 0002495 327.8598 032.2463 15.86006842 3303
1 28934U 05035D 06059.91837936 .00365793 00000-0 14078-2 0 362
2 28934 051.6415 023.4822 0000871 297.0956 063.0356 15.85805488 3261
1 28934U 05035D 06059.35117010 .00351859 00000-0 13833-2 0 359
2 28934 051.6397 026.4338 0003456 022.7355 337.4089 15.85396431 3177
1 28934U 05035D 06059.16207196 .00345720 00000-0 13680-2 0 342
2 28934 051.6420 027.4153 0006922 006.0399 354.0881 15.85257896 3147

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The Radioskaf experimental hardware designed by Russian students and manually launched from the International Space Station (ISS) in early February worked for two weeks before getting silent.

"The satellite worked for 14 days and seven hours and made 3,500 transmissions of greetings from space" - Sergei Samburov, project technical director.

Every 30 seconds the satellite was transmitting congratulations on the 175th anniversary of the Bauman Technical University and the 70th anniversary of the Moscow Aviation Institute and greetings by children in five languages – English, French, German, Italian and Japanese. Besides, the satellite transmitted telemetric information and an ISS picture taken during an ISS crew spacewalk.

The experiment was successful.

"That was the first hardware of the kind, and we did not know what would happen to it in space. Now we know that the satellite can function in the vacuum and amateur radio operators receive the signals despite the hardware’s rotation. The Radioskaf signal was not very strong because we used old storage batteries. Next time we will supply our satellite with solar batteries and install a video camera and some other equipment." - Sergei Samburov.

More than 1,000 earthlings from Alaska to Australia received Radioskaf messages, and approximately half of them made reports to the project administration and would receive special diplomas. The number of applicants for diplomas may still increase as “the storage batteries warm up in dense layers of the atmosphere and the satellite may broadcast messages for another day or two” .

Now that techniques of making satellites of spacesuits have been tested, experts will use Russian Orlan-M spacesuits with the expired service life for similar projects. It is planed to launch Radioskaf 2 and Radioskaf 3 in 2007, when anniversaries of space exploration pioneers Sergei Korolyov and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky are celebrated.

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SuitSat-1
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Now heading into its third week of operation, SuitSat-1 continues to put out a faint signal on 145.990 MHz. While hearing the spacesuit-satellite's telemetry and voice messages can be difficult even for the best-equipped stations, recent as-yet-unconfirmed reports suggest that SuitSat-1's battery voltage is entering its final stage.

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Current thinking is SuitSat is transmitting, but far weaker than expected. Several reliable reports of short snatches of the voice and SSTV signals have been reported.

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Reports from amateurs around the world indicate that only a few with very powerful antennas were able to detect anything being transmitted from the ill fated satellite. NASA television is reporting the batteries have probably failed or have frozen after just two orbits.

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http://www.suitsat.org/

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