Space Frequencies   Space Shuttle & Mir Frequencies   Space shuttle communications have been relayed on shortwave from a number of amateur radio clubs at NASA bases. These are in single sideband (SSB), and the frequencies to look for are WA3NAN at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland 3862 7185 14295 21395 28650 kHz Johnson Space Center in Texas 3840 14280 21350 28495 kHz Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. 3840 21280 kHz   Here are some reported frequencies connected with the shuttlemissions: Shortwave (SSB): Western Test Range 5700 13218 Eastern Test Range 5190 NASA Tracking Ships 5180 5187 Launch Support Ships 11104 19303 NASA Kennedy Operations 7675 USAF Cape Radio 6837 6896 11414 11548 19640 23413 Shuttle Mission Control 11201 NASA Ascension Island tracking 20186 NASA CB Radios 27065 Military aircraft emergency frequency 243.0 MHz Primary shuttle communications 259.7 Shuttle space suits 279.0 Primary UHF downlink 296.0 Air to ground or orbiter-to-suit 296.8 S Band (Wideband FM) via TDRS satellites:   NASA downlink in Mhz. 2217.5 2250.0 2287.5 Primary digital downlink 2287.5   North American satellite TV monitors can watch live video from the shuttle missions via NASA Select on Satcom 2R transponder 13. A voice TV schedule update can be heard by calling American telephone number 1-202-755-1788. Missions with German astronauts may be relayed on one of the Kopernikus satellites to Europe. Space launches may also be carried on Intelsat 504 at 31.4 degrees West, on 11.133 GHz. MIR The former Soviet MIR space station can easily be heard with its powerful FM signals on 143.625 MHz, but this channel is now only being used over Europe, when the station is in range of the ground station in the Crimea. Funding cuts dictated that the communications ships off Sable Island, Madeira, etc., which were relaying MIR by shortwave, are no longer operational. Voice communications have also been reported on 143.42 and 142.42 MHz, as well as a beacon on 121.75 MHz. Data communications from MIR have been heard on 166.130 (or possibly 165.875) MHz. Other frequencies reported from the former Soviet space program are: Soyuz T-11 space vehicle telemetry 20008 kHz Soyuz T-11 voice communications 142.423 MHz Soyuz TM-3 and TM-4 121.750 Progress 7 supply ship 166.000   When out of range of the CIS ground stations, MIR communications are now often relayed through the "Luch" or "Altair" transponder systems of CIS geostationary satellites. The Soviet satellite tracking network is called SDRN, the Satellite Data Relay Network. Downlinks are on 10.8, 11.3, and 13.7 GHz. The relay most used over Europe is via the satellite at 16 degrees West listed as ZSSRT-2 (an abbreviation of the Russian words "Zemlya S Sputnik Radio Translator", meaning "Western geostationary satellite transponder"). There is also an eastern relay at 167 degrees East. The SECAM color signals from MIR are listed at 10.835 GHz, but are actually carried at 10.829 GHz (unfortunately just below the range of most satellite TVRO receivers). Monitors can look for the satellite by tuning in to the strong data signals on 11.375 GHz, which can often be seen as flashing lines on the screen. Voice signals from MIR can be heard near the TV frequency, on a 300 kHz SSB subcarrier, but only when no TV signals are being relayed. MIR video has also been reported on the Ghorizont at 11 degrees West, on 11.525 GHz. The Molniya satellites are also used for relaying manned space voice communications.