Tag Archives: Principia

Dec 14 2018

Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS inspired 2 million young people

UK PM Theresa May and Tim Peake with some of the young people involved in Principia mission

UK PM Theresa May and Tim Peake with some of the young people involved in Principia mission

A new report has found more than 2 million young people in the UK engaged with education and outreach programmes linked to Tim Peake’s Principia Mission to space. The report highlights the role of ARISS and amateur radio during the mission.

UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS

UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS

The UK Space Agency ran a £3 million education campaign alongside the mission to the International Space Station, which blasted off three years ago tomorrow (15 December), to inspire a greater interest and understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) as well as space.

The campaign – the largest and most successful ever organised for a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut – encompassed 34 separate projects and covered a spectrum of ages and subjects, including mass participation experiments in schools using seeds that had been in space.

The report, produced by the UK Space Agency, found one in three UK schools took part in at least one Principia activity. Every region of the UK ran school activities with all projects accessible to boys and girls. The majority of the 34 projects focused on primary school children although some went right through to university.

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) logoHuman Spaceflight & Microgravity Programme Manager at the UK Space Agency Libby Jackson @LibbyJackson__ tweeted:
This report records my most memorable and most proud of professional achievement. Thank you to each and every one of the amazing team and partner organisations for what we did together along with @spacegovuk, @esa and @astro_timpeake. The impacts will be felt for many years yet.

ARISS-UK Ciaran Morgan @M0XTD tweeted:
Thank you @LibbyJackson__ and to the amazing team at @spacegovuk for choosing @ARISS_status to be part of the #Principia mission. We are proud to have taken part and to have made such an impression with so many students. Looking forward to the future!

Download the full Principia campaign report, or summary education report from
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/on-third-anniversary-of-tim-peakes-space-mission-report-reveals-over-2-million-inspired-by-education-campaign

ARISS Principia https://principia.ariss.org/

ARISS-UK videos of the Principia amateur radio contacts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQS-yDk7PdE9cRv4MNu8pCw

Dec 15 2015

Tim Peake ISS School Contacts Announced

ARISS stand at the London Science Museum Tim Peake launch event

ARISS stand at the London Science Museum Tim Peake launch event

ARISS have announced details of the first of the school amateur radio contacts with UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI. Tim will be using the special International Space Station (ISS) call sign GB1SS during his 6 month mission.

Students will be able to put a number of questions directly to Tim using amateur radio equipment specially installed at the school for the occasion.

Tim Peake KG5BVI training on the amateur radio station equipment he will use on the ISS

Tim Peake KG5BVI training on the amateur radio station equipment he will use on the ISS

ARISS has released target dates for the following schools:
• Sandringham School, St Albans @SandringhamSch1 between Jan 4-10, 2016
• RMS, Rickmansworth @RMSforGirls between Feb 8-14, 2016
• Oasis Academy, Brightstowe @OABrightstowe between Feb 15-21, 2016
• CNS, Norwich @cns_school between Feb 22-28, 2016

ARISS will announce further details for remaining school opportunities in January 2016.

The ARISS team of licensed UK Radio Amateurs is planning a world first by also receiving live video from the ISS during the contact. Using the HamTV transmitter, which has recently been commissioned on board the ISS, Tim will be the first astronaut to use this equipment during a two way schools contact.

As well as building a vehicle based receive system, which will be installed at the school on the day of the contact, the team visited Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall to commission a dish to receive the 2.4 GHz HamTV transmissions from the ISS.

HamTV dish antenna at Goonhilly - Credit Frank Heritage M0AEU

HamTV dish antenna at Goonhilly – Credit Frank Heritage M0AEU

During the contact at the schools the ARISS team will be providing information displays on the ISS position and have webcams showing both the local and Goonhilly dishes as they track the ISS.

The hosting schools will be organising presentations and displays before and after the contact and the ARISS team will be providing a live web cast of all the day’s events including the actual contact with Tim Peake.

The live event webcast will be hosted by the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) on their web streaming service at https://principia.ariss.org/live/

The ARISS programme is designed to maximise the impact of the Principia Mission outreach activities. It will directly engage students with media and communication technologies with the goal of inspiring them to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.

Principia Mission Patch

Principia Mission Patch

Tim Peake launch – Amateur Radio in the Media:

• Ciaran Morgan M0XTD was interviewed for the BBC 24 hour TV news channel at around midday
• Jeremy Curtis from the UK Space Agency was on Radio 5 Live talking about the launch during which he mentioned Amateur Radio
• Dr Chris Bridges 2E0OBC was interviewed at 9:17 am on BBC Surrey and Sussex
• Mark Dumpleton M0NCG managed to get a mention of amateur radio in BBC Stargazing Live
• BBC News mentioned the school amateur radio contacts http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35103376
• Times Educational Supplement article https://www.tes.com/news/blog/how-get-your-students-excited-about-tim-peakes-mission

Principia mission sites:
• ARISS https://principia.ariss.org/
• RSGB http://rsgb.org/main/news/principia-mission/
• UK Space Agency https://principia.org.uk/

School Shortlist for Tim Peake Space Station Contact
https://amsat-uk.org/2015/07/14/school-shortlist-tim-peake-iss/

Graham Shirville G3VZV and Chris Bridges 2E0OBC on the ARISS stand at the London Science Museum

Graham Shirville G3VZV and Chris Bridges 2E0OBC on the ARISS stand at the London Science Museum

 

Dec 10 2015

Tim Peake KG5BVI Principia Mission – Are you ready for launch ?

Principia Mission Patch

Principia Mission Patch

UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI has finished his training and has now entered the quarantine period before his launch, on Tuesday, December 15.

Have you decided how you will celebrate the launch? You can join in at events around the country or tune in at home, in school or at work.

There are four national launches in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London with 16 local Science and Discovery centres holding launch events around the UK.

BBC One will be televising the launch starting at 10.30 with a special one off Blast Off Live: A Stargazing Special programme presented by Professor Brian Cox and Dara Ó Briain from the Science Museum London. The hatch opening and Tim’s first moments on the International Space Station will be shown on BBC Two from 7pm.

You can watch also all the key moments throughout day online at Livestream, ESA TV, NASA TV and BBC.

UK students to have direct contact with astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI during Principia mission
https://amsat-uk.org/2015/12/09/uk-students-tim-peake-amateur-radio/