2023-04-23 20:58:13
The International Space Station was 430 kilometers above Argentine territory, just above Buenos Aires, when a taxi driver ‘sneaked’ into the conversation with the astronauts.
A radio signal from a taxi in Argentina, in which a driver asks for directions, slipped into a NASA transmission which followed the activities of astronauts on the International Space Station.
“1-5-0, did you say, from Irigoyen?”, It is heard in the middle of the live transmission that NASA made days ago while two Russian astronauts made a walk outside the International Space Station to change a radiator.
In the broadcast, you can hear those words in Spanish attributed to the intrusion of an open microphone carelessly.
But the Argentine journalist Manuel Mazzanti When he listened to that transmission, he caught that it was a voice with an Argentine accent asking for an address with a street that bears the name of either former president Hiplito Yrigoyen (1852-1933) or former senator and former governor of Buenos Aires Bernardo de Irigoyen (1822- 1906).
Mazzanti, who is dedicated to informatively covering space issues from the United States, then made a post on social networks with the video of the interfered transmission. that went viral.
He last TuesdayAt the time of the interference, the International Space Station was 430 kilometers above Argentine territory, according to local media.
“The band that radio taxis use is UHF. It’s not surprising because the Space Station makes an amateur radio transmission once a month on that same frequency and that’s why they pick it up. In this case, something was left open when they were doing a important spacewalk to change a radiator,” explained science popularizer Stephen Board in declarations this Sunday to the LN+ channel.
Tablón pointed out that the Space Station, which orbits the Earth many times per day, was at that time in the early hours of Tuesday morning. “exactly above Buenos Aires”.
“Son 430 kilometers in a straight line, without any kind of interference or obstacle. Apparently the frequency with which they communicate with radio amateurs on Earth was left open. A well-carrying radio taxi came out at the Space Station in an audio broadcast to the whole world, “he said.
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