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Mar 16 2012

ARISS ham radio space contact planned with school in Ortona, Italy

Space station

Space station

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contact has been planned Sunday 18 March 2012 at approximately 11.31 UTC with students at Istituto Tecnologico Statale Trasporti e Logistica “Leone Acciaiuoli”, Ortona, Italy.

The contact will be performed by the radio station IQ6LN and the downlink signal will be audible over Europe on 145.800 MHz FM.

The Ortona Maritime Institute “Leone Acciaiuoli” (I.T.N) is a technical high school preparing the students to a career as officer on merchant ships or to university studies in the field of engineering disciplines.
The subjects that characterize the I.T.N. programme are: Navigation, Astronomy, Celestial navigation, Satellite navigation, Telecommunications (including satellite telecommunications), Technical English, Nautical and Aeronautical Meteorology, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics and Physics. Many courses deal with matters related to space technologies. The student population is about 400.

The event will be broadcast in streaming video onhttp://www.livestream.com/AMSAT_Italia/

Students will ask as many of following questions as time allows.
1. Loris: We all believe you are special people working together to achieve one common great goal. Are you proud of the great moral and scientific value of your commitment?
2. Mauro: What is the relationship among you being forced to live together in a confined place for an extended period of time?
3. Pierluigi: What cultural requirements must an astronaut satisfy besides very hard physical and psychological training?
4. Andrea: Is it easier for astronauts to get used to being weightless or to get used to gravity again when they come back to Earth?
5. Antonio: What height is ISS orbiting at and why was this specific height chosen?

6. Nichol: How is the ISS flight path controlled?
7. Giada: When working outside the ISS how are you protected from the space environment and the risk of flying away?
8. Angela: How long does the voyage back down to the earth take? And how does it take place?
9. Iary: How do you feel when watching the earth from the spacecraft window?
10. Causarano: Do you think living in space might change your perception of the world and influence your future life on earth?

11. Agnese: People say human beings age slower in space than on earth. Is that true?
12. Tamara: How do days and nights alternate up there and how often do you see the sun rising?
13. Francesca: How do you receive news from the earth?
14. Federica: Do you ever happen to miss your ordinary life on earth while being up there?
15. Carmen: What does astronauts’ diet consist in and how is it usually prepared?

16. Giulia: How are water and oxygen generated on board?
17. Mario: What research are you doing and what benefits will result from it?
18. Matteo: We know you are growing plants on board. Why?
19. Alessia: How do you dispose of waste?
20. Francesco: Do you think people will travel to space in the next future?

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the space agencies, NASA, Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters’ interest in science, technology, and learning.

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS Chairman

Feb 21 2012

ARISS educative contact planned with Italian school

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contact has been planned with participants at 1° Circolo Didattico Nicola Fornelli, Bitonto, Italy on 24 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14:01 UTC.

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and IZ7RTN. The contact should be audible over Italy and most of Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.800 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

1° Circolo Didattico “N. Fornelli” Bitonto is an educational primary school, placed in the centre of the pleasant town of Bitonto, Apulia, south of Italy, the “olive town” famous all over the world. This is the oldest elementary school in Bitonto, an architectural building in the centre of the city. In the primary school there are 810 students. There are 4 nursery schools with 415 pupils. The school has large open spaces, a gym, a library with about 6000 books and 4 laboratories.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. What do you feel when you float weightlessly in the Space Station?
2. What is the temperature outside the ISS?
3. How can you avoid collisions with meteoroids or space debris?
4. On board the Space Station, is there a system to recycle oxygen?
5. How long is the rehabilitation to the Earth’s gravity when returning on Earth?

6. What feelings do you experience living for such a long mission surrounded by the immensity of space, do you feel privileged?
7. What inspired you to become an astronaut?
8. What temperature are tolerable by a space suit?
9. What kind of studies did you attend to become an astronaut?
10. What is the most difficult task for the commander of the International Space Station?

11. What kind of experiments are currently underway aboard the ISS?
12. Which part of our planet are you looking at right now?
13. During the day do you have free time?
14. Do you feel safe on board the ISS?
15. Who would you like to dedicate this experience in space?

16. How would your life change after this adventure in space?
17. Are you in contact with your family and how do you communicate with them?
18. What is the future for space exploration?
19. In your opinion is life possible in the universe?
20. Do you believe that it is possible to create a human colony on the Moon?

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters’ interest in science, technology, and learning.

73

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS Chairman

Feb 4 2012

ARISS contact planned with technical college in Poland

On Saturday February 4, 2012 at approximately 12.41 UTC, which is 13.41 CEWT, an educational ARISS contact is planned with the Polytechnic school in Walbrzych, Poland. Amateur radio station W6SRJ, located in California, will operate the contact.

The Polytechnic school in Walbrzych has been established in 1946.
These days it is well known as Secondary Complex School “Energetyk”, with a population of over 900 students. They study electricity, electro-mechanics, electronics, technical graphics, telecommunications, IT and ITC techniques, advertising. The school is equipped for students with disabilities, education is on a very high-level and graduate students can easily find employment. It is the best technical school in Walbrzych.

Apart from teaching, the school offers many other activities.
The Shooting section exists since sixty years and takes leading positions in “The Silver Muskets” contest. Since three years, students take part in the Robotic Group, acquiring knowledge and having a lot of fun, building robots from scratch, according to their own ideas and knowledge. They were several times among the winners in prestigious competitions on an International level. There is also the school band “Underland”. The band is well-known in Walbrzych for they perform many concerts, in the city and around. In school is also active in “Energol TV” and they produce a newspaper “Alcatraz 2”.

The amateur radio club SP6PBA is located in the school. Besides HF communications with HAM operators all over the World, the club also transmits HAM TV in the 1.2 GHz band.

The ARISS contact will be conducted in English. It will be broadcast on EchoLink AMSAT (node 101 377) and JK1ZRW (node 277 208) Conference servers, as well as on IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010.

Students will ask as many of the following questions as time allows.
1. Lukasz (18): What is the difference between an astronaut and a cosmonaut?
2. Kacper (16): How does it feel to be weightless?
3. Karol (20): How long does it take to get accustomed to gravity after returning to Earth from the ISS?
4. Mateusz (20): Are large structures on the Earth such as the Chinese wall or the artificial islands in Dubai visible from the ISS? What else?
5. Piotr C. (20): Is eating in weightlessness difficult?

6. Dawid (18): How do you spend your free time on the station?
7. Sebastian (16): Has the crew got any health problems related to being in space?
8. Piotr J. (16): What kind of everyday tasks and what kind of experiments do you perform on the ISS?
9. Lukasz (18): How did it happen that you became an astronaut? Did you dream about it as a child?
10. Kacper (16): Do you keep in touch with your family when you are in space?

11. Karol(20): Are you provided with media such as phone, Internet, radio or TV?
12. Mateusz (20): Is the rubbish thrown out into space or brought back to Earth?
13. Piotr C. (20): Which planets of our solar system apart from Earth can you see through the window in Cupola module?
14. Dawid (18): Is it hard to take care of personal hygiene in the absence of gravity?
15. Sebastian (16): How long does the trip from lift-off until docking at the ISS last?
16. Piotr J. (16): How long does an astronaut’s mission training last?
17. Darek (55): How did you celebrate the beginning of 2012 on the station and which time zone did you have to adjust to?

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers onboard the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters’ interest in science, technology and learning.

73

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF

ARISS Chairman

Jan 11 2012

ARISS contact planned with Atheneum in Borgloon, Belgium

 

 

The International Space Station

ARISS contact planned with Atheneum in Borgloon, Belgium

On Friday January 13, 2012 at approximately 12:36 UTC , which is 13.36 CEWT, an educational ARISS contact is planned with students at Atheneum Borgloon in Belgium.
Amateur radio station K6DUE, located in Maryland, USA, will operate the radio contact.

Koninklijk Atheneum Borgloon is a secondary school in Borgloon, a city in Belgium. Student population of 165 is spread across one campus. The school offers general and technical courses.

One pupil introduced the school to radio station UBA-RST. Her father suggested to apply for an educational ARISS contact with astronaut Andre Kuipers aboard the International Space Station. This request was accepted and the space conversation was carefully prepared.

The school’s policy is to stimulate interest for science through educational subjects and extracurricular activities (school trips such as visits to the Planetarium in Genk and Eurospace Center in Transinne). Some students decide to take a higher education in sciences and establish a professional career in academics or scientific research. In the 6th grade, the geography classes cover the subject of cosmography. This course deals with the way we receive information from outer space.

Participating in this radio contact is an outstanding means to make pupils, teachers and parents more aware of what lies beyond our planet’s borders. This event will foster the students’ attention on the process of scientific research. In this respect, the radio contact with Andre Kuipers during his space mission is a unique opportunity for the students.

The space conversation will be conducted in Dutch.

The contact will be broadcast on EchoLink AMSAT (node 101 377) and JK1ZRW (node 277 208) Conference servers, as well as on IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010.

ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers, PI9ISS

Students will ask as many of the following questions as time allows.
1. Kimberly (17): Welke opleiding hebt u gevolgd om deze ruimtemissie voor te bereiden?
2. Dafné (13): Hoe lang duurt de
reis van de aarde tot het ISS?
3. Michelle (17): Hoeveel bedraagt de snelheid van het ISS?
4. Jana (13): Wat is de binnen- en buitentemperatuur van het ISS?
5. Wouter (17): Welke taal wordt er gesproken in het ISS?

6. Elena (13): Kan u een voorbeeld geven van het wetenschappelijk onderzoek dat u uitvoert?
7. Rajinder (17): Hoeveel personen kunnen er verblijven in het ISS en met hoeveel bent u momenteel?
8. Maarten (13): Hoe groot is jullie leefruimte?
9. Ellen (17): Wat zijn de dagelijkse taken en is er vrije tijd?
10. Naomi (13): Wat gebeurt er als u ziek wordt; is er medicatie aan boord?

11. Myrthe (13): Hoeveel maaltijden nuttigt u per dag en is het voedsel lekker?
12. Jinte (13): Waarom slaapt u rechtopstaand en niet liggend?
13. Jo-Elle (13): Draagt u elke dag propere kleren en hoe wast u zich?
14. Lore (13): Hoe komt u aan zuurstof/lucht in het ISS?
15. Lies (13): Zit een ruimtepak goed?

16. Ravi (13): Kunt u sporten in de ruimte? Zo ja, welke sport verkiest u?
17. Glenn (13): Hoe verloopt de communicatie met uw familie?
18. Jens (13): Wat hebt u meegenomen in uw reiskoffer?
19. Hanne (13): Hoe verloopt een ruimtewandeling en gaat u er een maken?
20. Gitte (13): Wat gaat u doen na deze ruimtemissie?

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers onboard the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters’ interest in science, technology and learning.

73

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF

ARISS Chairman

Jan 9 2012

F6KRK ISS School Contact Video

This video, shot in Descartes High School, shows the school’s contact with astronaut Dan Burbank KC5ZSX who was onboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Watch Contact ARISS – F6KRK – Montigny-Le-Bretonneux – 09 Janvier 2012

A video of Edmund 2E0MDO receiving the ISS school contact on a Baofeng UV-3R from a car park in Worthing is at http://www.uk.amsat.org/3567

Find out how to listen to the International Space Station at http://www.uk.amsat.org/3491

ARISS ham radio contact with Descartes High School, France
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2012/ariss_event_0901.htm

Jan 4 2012

ARISSat-1 SK

ARISSat-1 Logo

The amateur radio satellite ARISSat-1, deployed from the ISS on August 3, fell silent on Wednesday, January 4, as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

The ARISSat website shows the last telemetry was captured at 06:02:14 UTC on Jan. 4  with these temperatures:

IHU PCB    75°C
PSU     76°C
RF     88°C
Batt     55°C
RF Enc 67°C

The full telemetry data can be seen at http://www.arissat1.org/

Mike Repprecht DK3WN reports that Tetsurou Satou JA0CAW captured telemetry at 05:59 UTC. Mike says it’s remarkable that the last voice message heard was from Yuri Gagarin. See the last data on Mike’s SatBlog http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=25125 The JA0CAW Blog in Google English is at http://tinyurl.com/74q5o6g

Konstantin Vladimirovich RN3ZF listened for the satellite at 08:42 UTC using an AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle with WRplus. On the FUNcube Yahoo Group he says “the telemetry was absent, voice messages were not legible, very silent and interrupted. Most likely, I saw last minutes in the life of the satellite.” He continued monitoring but did not detect any further signals from the satellite. He has made available his final ARISSat-1 recordings in WRPlus format at:
http://doris.kiev.ua/rn3zf/kedr/
http://doris.kiev.ua/rn3zf/kedr/WRplus_20120104_084230Z_145940kHz.wav
http://doris.kiev.ua/rn3zf/kedr/WRplus_20120104_085129Z_145940kHz.wav
Note the files are large.

Education has been a large part of the ARISSat project and on the FUNcube Yahoo Group Simon Kennedy G0FCU says he was glad he was able to receive good signals and SSTV pictures last week for his daughter to take to school as part of her project on Space.

Listen to a recording by Mineo Wakita JE9PEL made at 01:22-01:27 UTC, Jan 4, 2012, Ele 7 W-WN-N, 145.950MHz FM over Japan when it would have been at an altitude of about 175 km http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/20104ar2.mp3

A graph showing the descent of ARISSat-1 can be seen at http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/arissat.htm#r 

SSTV pictures taken by ARISSat-1 can be seen at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/SSTV/

AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/tools/maillist/

Dec. 30 – ARISSat-1 Getting Hotter: http://www.uk.amsat.org/2011/12/30/arissat-1-getting-hotter/