ARISS News Release No. 21-53

ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.   21-53   

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

ARISS Contact is Scheduled for

Students at Mary Hare School (for the deaf), Newbury, UK

October 8, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

 This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between students at the Mary Hare School, Newbury, UK and Astronaut Mark Vande Hei, amateur radio call sign KG5GNP. Students will take turns asking their questions. Appropriate local Covid-19 protocols are adhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the radio relay ground station.

 Amateur radio operators in Newbury using the GB4MHN call sign will operate the ham radio ground station for this contact.

 The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 12, 2021 at 12:12 pm BST (Newbury, UK), (11:12 UTC, 7:12 am EDT, 6:12 am CDT, 5:12 am MDT and 4:12 am PDT).

 Mary Hare School is an aural school for the deaf that teaches students to develop lip reading skills and to make use of technology. The school teaches students (Year 1 – 13, ages 5 – 19 years) that are studying towards A levels. About 250 students will be in the auditorium where the contact will take place and about 600 students in other parts of the school will be linked in via a web feed to observe the contact. Topics taught during the school year prior to this ARISS contact that were related to radio and space included studies in the fields of physics, chemistry and biology. Student activities during the week prior to the contact included designing and flying model rockets, making astronomical observations, and observing authentic space suits. After each student asks their question, the astronaut's reply will then be transcribed into subtitles. The technical side of the contact (radio equipment) is being handled by the ARISS UK team with members of the Newbury and District Amateur Radio Society (NADARS) providing the students with the "amateur radio experience" through events and activities. This is believed to be the first ARISS contact between a school for deaf children and an astronaut on the ISS.

 The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://live.ariss.org

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 As time allows, students will ask these questions:

 1. Do you have to learn a sign language to communicate if something goes wrong with the radios in your suit?

2. How do you tell directions in space?

3. What do the northern lights look like from space?

4. How can you shower in zero gravity?

5. What's your most favourite space technology?

6. If there was a fire, how would you evacuate?

7. Do mobile devices work in space? For example, a Smart Phone?

8. If you could take one thing from home into space, to make life more fun what would you take and why?

9. What is it like to wake up and see the earth from space?

10. How long have you been in space for?    

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 ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Continuous Amateur Radio Operations on the ISS

 About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA's Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org

Media Contact:

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

                   

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ARISS News Release No. 21-54

ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.   21-54   

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

ARISS Contact is Scheduled for Students in France

at Ecole Louis Armand, Carquefou, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Carquefou, and Collège Les Sables D'Or, Thouare Sur Loire

 

October 10, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

 

This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between students in France at the Ecole Louis Armand, Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT), and Collège Les Sables D'Or and Astronaut Thomas Pesquet, amateur radio call sign KG5FYG. Students will take turns asking their questions. Appropriate local Covid-19 protocols are adhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the radio relay ground station.

 

Amateur radio operators in Carquefou using the F5KEQ/P call sign will operate the ham radio ground station for this contact.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 13, 2021 at 3:39 pm CEST (Carquefou, France), (13:39 UTC, 9:39 am EDT, 8:39 am CDT, 7:39 am MDT and 6:39 am PDT).

 

Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT) is a third level educational establishment, a branch of Nantes University, and offers diplomas in seven industrial specialties to about 2,000 students. The IUT maintains close links with secondary level schools who are partners for events that promote science and technology. IUT will host this ARISS contact to bring together students from Collège Les Sables D'Or (13 year-olds), and Louis Armand (9 year-olds) as well students from IUT.  About 300 students are expected to be present during the radio contact. Members of the Association des Radioamateurs de Loire Atlantique (ARALA) will be supporting the school for this radio contact. ARALA has promoted amateur radio activity in each school by offering demonstrations and presentations that introduce students to the wide range of interests in amateur radio. Some of these radio activities included: satellite demonstrations via QO-100, radio directional finding exercises, yagi-building classes, and Morse code demonstrations.

 

The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://youtu.be/8mam6IlA7uw

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 As time allows, students will ask these questions (Translated from French):

1.  How did you feel when you found out that you would be the ISS Commander?

2. Can we alter the martian atmosphere to make it better for human life?

3. Does the saxophone sound the same as on Earth?

4. If we couldn't live on the Earth anymore, could a part of human beings live in a spaceship?

5. Are the harmful effects on the body more powerful when one returns to space several times?

6. What are the solutions to handle food and water for a long journey in space without being supplied with food regularly?

7. Where do you touch down on Earth? Why at this specific location?

8. Do space agencies plan to build eco-friendly rockets?

9. Does playing sport in space have a different effect on the human body?

10. Have you seen changes since your last space journey on the ISS Such as deforestation, urbanization or fires?

11. What's the funniest thing in space?

12. Apart from the scientific interest, what is the point of going on another planet when we don't respect ours?

13. What are the responsibilities of the Alpha Head of Mission?

14. Do you think that man will have made Mars livable before The Earth no longer is?

15. How do you set the date and time for take-off?

16. How do you feel when you are out on an extra-vehicular mission?

17. Have you found any seed varieties that you can grow without soil in the ISS? If so, do they take the same time to grow as on Earth?

18. What is your favorite place on the ISS?

19. What's the first thing you want to do when you return to Earth?

20. Does food taste the same in space?

21. Some astronauts see flashes when the close their eyes. Could you explain why?

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 ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Continuous Amateur Radio Operations on the ISS

 About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA's Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org

Media Contact:

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

                  

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ARISS News Release No. 21-45

ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.   21-45   

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISS Contact is Scheduled for Participants in the

1st Ono Group, Hyogo Council Scout Association, Ono, Japan

 

 

August 9, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

 

This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between scouts with the 1^st Ono Scout Group, Ono, Japan and Astronaut Shane Kimbrough, amateur radio call sign KE5HOD. The scouts will take turns asking their questions. Appropriate local Covid-19 protocols are adhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the radio relay ground station.  

 Amateur radio operators, using the call sign 8J3ONO, will operate the ham radio ground station for this contact.

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for August 11, 2021 at 5:05 pm JST (Ono, Japan), (8:05 UTC, 4:05 am EDT, 3:05 am CDT, 2:05 am MDT and 1:05 am PDT).

 Ono Scout Group has 50 scouts (Elementary school students, junior high school students, high school students, and university students). The Ono Scout Group consists of 40 leaders, and this year marks the 40-year anniversary of its founding. This ARISS contact with the scouts is intended to help their scouts develop an interest in space and science and technology.

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

1. Do you feel any stress during your long stay on the ISS?

2. Can you see the aurora from space?

3. Did you find aliens?

4. Please tell us the most fun thing in space.

5. How do you sleep on the ISS?

6. Is there any physical change in space?

7. What do you do with the garbage on the ISS?

8. What happens if the spacesuit gets torn?

9. What happens when you use an abacus in zero gravity?

10. Why did you become an astronaut?

11. Is there any water outside space craft?

12. What devices do you have around you?

13. Do sunflowers bloom in the ISS, when day and night switch every 45 minutes?

14. What do you do when there is a problem with the ISS?    

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 ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Continuous Amateur Radio Operations on the ISS

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA's Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.

 

Media Contact:

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

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SSTV Transmissions from the International Space Station

Friday and Saturday August 6 - 7, 2021, Russian cosmonauts onboard the

International Space Station will transmit slow-scan television
(SSTV) images from the station on 145.800 MHz FM. They will use SSTV
mode PD-120.

he transmissions are part of the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment (MAI-75) and will be sent via RS0ISS, the ham station in the Russian Zvezda (Service) module using a Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver.

The announced schedule is August 6, 10:50 – 19:10 UTC and August 7,
09:50 – 15:55 UTC. Dates and times are subject to change.

For ground  stations in the ISS footprint, the RS0ISS signal should be easy to copy on a handheld transceiver and a quarter-wave whip. Use 25-kHz channel
spacing, if available. Free ISS software is available to download.

Pass predictions are available from AMSAT via  https://www.amsat.org/track/ .

Representative images from prior ISS SSTV events are available in the ARISS SSTV Gallery at https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php .

ARISS CALENDAR

The ARISS Operations Team meets weekly by telephone conference and much more frequently via e-mail and telephone. Activities coordinated by the ARISS operations team will be announced in this public Google Calendar. These are the ARISS school contacts, HamTV activities (other than blank transmission) and SSTV activities.

Calendar integration features

On this page we show the ARISS contacts calendar in a Google Calendar format.
This calendar allows you to share ARISS contacts with other calendars or it allows you to integrate info about ARISS activities into your own calendar.
https://www.amsat-on.be/ariss-calendar-with-scheduled-contacts-by-the-ariss-operation-team/

About ARISS

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation(AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For further information, please see www.ariss.org.


73,
Gaston Bertels ON4WF




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ARISS News Release No. 21-43

ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.   21-43   

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISS Contact is Scheduled for Students at

Seinan Gakuin Junior Senior High School, Fukuoka, Japan

 July 20, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between students at the Seinan Gakuin Junior Senior High School, Fukuoka and Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, amateur radio call sign KE5DNI. Students will take turns asking their questions. Japanese is the language expected to be used during the contact, however students want to communicate in English, therefore they request that replies be in English when possible. Onsite access will be provided to the student body at the time of the contact, and following Covid-19 guidelines. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the radio relay ground station.

Onsite access will be provided to the student body at the time of the contact, and following Covid-19 guidelines.

Amateur radio operators, using the 8N6SW call sign will operate the ham radio ground station for this contact.

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for July 22, 2021 at 6:14 pm JST (Fukuoka, Japan), (09:14 UTC, 5:14 am EDT, 4:14 am CDT, 3:14 am MDT and 2:14 am PDT).

Seinan Gakuin Junior Senior High School is a private, six-year coeducational school and is among the oldest private schools in the Fukuoka area. In 2003 the school moved to the new campus in the Momochihama area of Fukuoka. The school events that are tied into the ARISS contact include satellite operations, space research, and ham radio's historical function. The school's ham radio club will be participating/supporting this contact.

The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://nasatosw.space/

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

1. What is the best space food that you have ever had?

2. Do you have any personal routines that you do before you do something important?

3. Can you prove that you are actually in space and not just in some NASA base?

4. What made you want to become an astronaut?

5. What do you think when you see Japan from space?

6. What are the most amazing natural phenomena that you have ever seen from space?

7. Is there anything in the universe that cannot be seen from earth?

8. What would be the biggest challenge if people decide to move to Mars?

9. What is the most inconvenient thing about living in space?

10. You have been on several missions to space. On your first trip, what was the hardest part about coming back to earth?

11. What was the hardest part of your training and tests on earth?

12. What does the aurora borealis look like from space?

13. Many different countries and companies are trying their best to explore space, but I don't think they should compete with each other. Instead, we need to unite together, because we are all human beings; we are all on one team. Mr. Hoshide, what do you think about it?

14. As the captain of the ISS, what do you think is the most important part of your job?

15. I want to major in "space engineering" at university. So, could you please tell me what kinds of. technology you would want to be developed in the future.    

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ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Continuous Amateur Radio Operations on the ISS

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA's Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.

Media Contact:

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

  

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