{"id":176,"date":"2011-09-20T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/big-satellite-coming-down\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:43:19","slug":"big-satellite-coming-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/big-satellite-coming-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Satellite Coming Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/uars-satellite-deployment.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/uars-satellite-deployment.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654373106444608034\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I remember seeing this satellite as it passed overhead. It was one of the brighter birds (it is BIG) and it had a distinctive red color to it. NPR reports that the odds of it hitting someone are in the area of 1 in 3800. Steve &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221; Smith tells me he has his catcher&#8217;s mitt on:<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/12859-nasa-satellite-falling-space-debris-uars.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1316510893_0\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/12859-nasa-satellite-falling-space-debris-uars.html<\/span><\/a><a style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/12859-nasa-satellite-falling-space-debris-uars.html\"><br \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">I&#8217;ve always wanted a piece of space debris ever since SkyLab crashed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Waiting and watching on the Left Coast&#8230;&#8230;I&#8217;ve got it! I&#8217;ve got it!&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;.-THUD-.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">73&#8230;&#8230;.Steve Smith WB6TNL<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"> &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember seeing this satellite as it passed overhead. It was one of the brighter birds (it is BIG) and it had a distinctive red color to it. NPR reports that the odds of it hitting someone are in the area of 1 in 3800. Steve &#8220;Snort Rosin&#8221; Smith tells me he has his catcher&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/09\/20\/big-satellite-coming-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Satellite Coming Down&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}