We've always been proud of our pioneering spirit here at the Aye, bringing you a number of firsts down the years including the legendary 'Stadium Webcam' with which Tigers fans could track progress on our new stadium.
In October 2006, however, we surpassed even ourselves. Yes, the ground breaking Aye of the Tigers became the first ever fanzine to enter the space race when CASSAT1 was successfully launched to bring you live pictures of our new ground, as it's being built.... from Space!!
The launch was not entirely without incident. Our initial approaches to NASA and the European Space Agency were met with rather lukewarm reactions, so we had to call in a long standing favour with avid Aye reader Kim Jung Ill who allowed us to launch from a top secret installation in North Korea (which, we understand, was mistaken for something rather different and caused a bit of a kerfuffle at the U.N. - Sorry about that).
Since the successful launch we've had our very own boffins (the same brains who brought you the very popular* 'Survivometer') locked away at our tracking station in Cutsyke, establishing geostationary orbit, monitoring various systems and sending up test signals.
<<<<<< ++++++ CAS-SAT-1 UPDATE ++++++ >>>>>>
Initially (thanks to our boffins letting Disco 'do some of the sums') the feed from our state-of-the-art 'Aye in the sky' sadly set itself up to bring you live pictures of a field in Missouri rather than the new ground site. However, after a few tweaks of knobs and twiddles with dials we got... a blank screen.
So Disco got out his trusty hammer and with a few gentle taps here and there (along with some more energetic thumps resulting in dents and holes in the panel) Disco's percussion engineering finally got a picture. Granted it seemed to be a feed from some Japanese porn channel, but at least we now had a picture.
Stone Cold decided enough was enough and called those nice people from SKY who seem to know a bit about satellites and after agreeing to a few extra subscriptions (including 'Discovery Stamp Collecting' and the same Japanese porn channel Disco found for free) we have finally trained the camera onto the target zone. Er, the magnification needs some work but at least it shows the right area... And what do you expect from a box of Omo?
CAS-SAT-1 : LIVE IMAGING
(*Well - popular with those thieving gits at Wigan anyway)
Stone Coldon January 17 2007 20:44:27
UPDATE: We've got the SATCAM pointing at the right area now...
Discoon January 27 2007 01:21:34
Anybody got any tissues? I've run out...
benjtigeron June 09 2008 17:37:13
its changed a lot since i last saw it
Adamon August 25 2008 13:23:23
That's the most beautiful story I have ever heard. it's going to be passed down to my children, and my childrens children, and my children's children's children, and my children's children's children's children and my ch... you get the point. The story was moving, well it had to be go get from Japanese Porn to the current site Ever though of approaching "Red Light Productions" they like publishing amateur things, 1 night in Paris for example
speedyon December 15 2008 22:51:08
http://www.waystone.co.uk/UKSites/Glasshoughton
Stoke Bloke 06/09/2010 02:38 Tell ya with all the gush from Sky and the help from the officials we wouldnt have won if saints had stayed in the sheds. dred proud great performance
phil malone 05/09/2010 11:12 Proud of the effort, 10 out of 10. Dodgy decisions early in season cost us (robins x2) etc
Delboy66 04/09/2010 21:00 Fuckin Sheepshaggers!!
Proud as fck of the lads tonite to say it was all the st helens show on sky, Muppets!!
The launch was not entirely without incident. Our initial approaches to NASA and the European Space Agency were met with rather lukewarm reactions, so we had to call in a long standing favour with avid Aye reader Kim Jung Ill who allowed us to launch from a top secret installation in North Korea (which, we understand, was mistaken for something rather different and caused a bit of a kerfuffle at the U.N. - Sorry about that).
it's going to be passed down to my children, and my childrens children, and my children's children's children, and my children's children's children's children and my ch... you get the point. The story was moving, well it had to be go get from Japanese Porn to the current site 
Ever though of approaching "Red Light Productions" they like publishing amateur things, 1 night in Paris for example 
