Four students at the Humber Institute of Technology just dispatch their condition projection : to progress a wireless from scratch and call the International Space Station . You know , in blank space .
After one hopeful transmission , the team only heard static . A second attempt was met with a response from space gentlewoman Sandra Magnus , who , sitting 220 mile from the surface of the earth , grant the students a short interview . despoiler qui vive : they tattle about space , and how awesome it is ( “ very very ” as it turns out ) .
The conversation with the ISS was the culmination of a radio set communication theory course , and constitutes “ a first ” for students , according to their teachers . Unlike thelegions of consecrate ham radio operatorsthat hurtle their call planetary house at the ISS on a regular basis , the Humber team contrive and built the radio themselves . They have n’t harlequinade called quad yet , so I ’m declaring the project a unadulterated failure . see out a video of the transmissionhere . [ Globe and MailviaReddit ]
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