SuitSat
Sign in to savethumb|200px|SuitSat-1 inside the ISS thumb|200px|Launch of SuitSat-1 (seen on the right; an astronaut is the figure on the left) thumb|200px|SuitSat-1 in orbit after being deployed from ISS SuitSat (also known as SuitSat-1, Mr. Smith, Ivan Ivanovich, RadioSkaf, Radio Sputnik, and AMSAT-OSCAR 54) was a retired Russian Orlan space suit with a radio transmitter mounted on its helmet, used as a hand-launched satellite.
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- SuitSat-1
- ARISSat-1 (formerly SuitSat-2)
- In popular culture
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thumb|200px|SuitSat-1 inside the ISS thumb|200px|Launch of SuitSat-1 (seen on the right; an astronaut is the figure on the left) thumb|200px|SuitSat-1 in orbit after being deployed from ISS SuitSat (also known as SuitSat-1, Mr. Smith, Ivan Ivanovich, RadioSkaf, Radio Sputnik, and AMSAT-OSCAR 54) was a retired Russian Orlan space suit with a radio transmitter mounted on its helmet, used as a hand-launched satellite.
First devised around 2004, SuitSat-1 was deployed in an ephemeral orbit around the Earth from the International Space Station on February 3, 2006. Contact from SuitSat-1 was lost by February 18, and the satellite burned up on reentry in Earth's atmosphere on September 7.