Curious mind gets lucky: Ahmedabad man video chats with SpaceX crew Dragon aboard ISS

Luck shined over a ham rio enthusiast from Ahmedab on Wednesday as he got a response from X Crew Dragon's astronauts while trying to connect with International Station. Amateur rio, also kwn as ham rio, is use of riofrequency spectrum for purposes of n-commercial exchange of messs, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, riosport, contesting, and emergency communication.

hir Saiyh, a computer engineer, said that he was trying to connect with ISS when he suddenly received a response from Dragon capsule which docked with orbital outpost on Sunday. ISS was at time of Saiyh's contact over India in lower Earth orbit.

"I was on a video call with my student regarding ISS. He asked me if we could connect with ISS. I decided to try and connect while I was on video call. I coincidentally got connected on ir frequency and received a reply from capsule and experienced a video call connection," Saiyh told ANI.

He furr said that he and his students were in middle of an e-lecture when this capsule passed over Ahmedab. "I tried to connect to ISS and we got connected. y ackwledged call," said Saiyh.

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X's history-making mission

Elon Musk-owned X Dragon created history on May 27 as it became first private company to send NASA astronauts to . This was first launch from US soil since NASA retired its shuttle programme in 2011. mission successfully sent Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to and Dragon capsule approached International Station just hours after a historic lift off from Florida.

(With ANI inputs)

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