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ARISS News Release No.22-51
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
aa4kn(a)amsat.org
FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at
St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Houston, Houston,Texas USA
September30, 2022—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between astronauts aboard theInternational Space Station (ISS) and students at St. Stephen’s EpiscopalSchool located in Houston, TX. ARISSconducts 60-80 of these special amateur radio contacts each year betweenstudents around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard theISS.
St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Houston is an urban, privateschool and home of the da Vinci Lab for Creative Arts and Sciences (da VinciLab) that provides a STEAM learning program. The da Vinci Lab serves 75students from ages 6 through 14 who are involved daily with core STEM lessons thatalso include topics on electronics and radio concepts. The students get tobuild circuits learning the difference between series and parallel circuits andthe foundations for Ohm’s law. Coursetopics and activities also include the history of Morse Code (playingBattleship using only Morse Code signals), Slow Scan Television (sendingmessages with walkie talkies) and radio wave properties (demonstrated duringtheir annual Fox Hunt event). Students are already avid ISS trackers, andtravel to local parks or other vantage points to view the ISS as it passes overHouston. In the weeks leading up to the ARISS contact students were involved inmore specific lessons, some of these included exploring (virtually) inside theISS, living on the ISS, NASA’s Mars rover landing, tracking CubeSats, buildingyagi antennas, and working the ISS APRS digipeater. Members of the local amateurradio club (Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club) are supporting the school duringthis contact.
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions ofAstronaut Bob Hines, amateur radio call sign KI5RQT. Local Covid-19 protocolsare adhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. The downlink frequency forthis contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within theISS-footprint that also encompasses the relay ground station.
The amateur radio ground station for this contactis in Houston, TX, USA. Amateur radio operators using call sign KG5QNO, willoperate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 3, 2022 at 1:09:27 pm CDT (Houston,TX) (18:09:27 UTC, 2:09 pm EDT, 12:09 pm MDT, 11:09 am PDT).
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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:
1.How do we go to space?
2.How do you drive a rocket?
3.What was your motivation to get to the ISS?
4.How do you feel when you come back to Earth?
5.Do you lose track of which way is up?
6.How do you maintain the water supply on ISS?
7.How do plants grow in space?
8.Can you eat Ramen in space?
9.Do your ears hurt when you fly to Earth?
10.Do you ever get tired?
11.Is your wifi the fastest because you are in a satellite?
12.Is the station cold?
13.Have you ever been in a crisis in the ISS?
14.How did you and your family prepare for your trip to space?
15.Does it feel cool doing a backflip in space?
16.Have you encountered a micrometeorite?
17.Are there germs in space?
18.Do you play any games?
19.What happens if someone dies in the space ship?
20.Do you ever get lonely?
About ARISS:
Amateur Radio on the InternationalSpace Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radiosocieties and the space agencies that support the International Space Station(ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur SatelliteCorporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS NationalLab-Space Station Explorers, Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) andNASA’s Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISSis to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, andmathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts viaamateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before andduring these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities takepart in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, andamateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org
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