ARISS News Release No. 21-22
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
aa4kn@amsat.org
FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS ContactScheduled for Students at Winmalee Public School
BlueMountains, New South Wales, Australia
April 17, 2021—AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received scheduleconfirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the groupthat puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around theglobe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).
This will be a telebridge contact via amateur radio and students will take turnsasking their questions of Astronaut Victor Glover, amateurradio call sign KI5BKC. Englishis the language that will be used for this contact. Both onsite and remote access will beprovided to the student body at the time of the contact per Covid-19 guidelines.The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800MHz and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that alsoencompasses the telebridge station.
ARISSteam member Jan Poppeliers, in Aartselaar, Belgium using radio call sign ON4ISS,will serve as the ARISS relay amateur radio station.
The ARISS radio contact isscheduled for April 20, 2021 at 6:28 pm [AEST] (Winmalee,Australia), (8:28 UTC,4:28 am EDT, 3:28 am CDT, 2:28 am MDT and 1:28 am PDT).
Winmalee PublicSchool (360 students, Kindergarten-Year 6) is one of five local primary schoolsin the town of Winmalee within the Blue Mountains, 80 km west of Sydney,Australia. Winmalee Public School’s STEM program curriculum includes a weeklySTEM Lab for Kindergarten through Year 6 taught by a specialist primary scienceeducator. Space-based studies also include lessons about the Solar system,space travel, space missions, and the future of space exploration. Inpreparation for the ARISS contact class lessons have focused on the ISS; how totrack its position in orbit (using applied mathematics), as well as learningabout the ISS astronauts and their roles. Other student activities included ISSmodel-building, designing promotional posters, and sharing their knowledge ofthe ISS with the local high school students. Students also participated in aspace trivia competition.
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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:
1.What is the best way to describe the feeling of microgravity?
2.How long does it take to travel to the Space Station from Earth?
3.Have you ever seen a meteor pass through Earth’s atmosphere from the ISS?
4.What experiments do you do at the International Space Station?
5.Has anything ever gone wrong or required you to take emergency action while youhave been on board the International Space Station?
6.What happens if space junk hits the International Space Station?
7.What personal items would you take into space if allowed…and why?
8.How many times a year do you get supplies delivered to the ISS?
9.What is the most difficult thing about being in space?
10.What do you do for fun up there?
11.As the ISS orbits the earth, can you see weather patterns like cyclones?
12.Do you grow plants in the space station? If so, how?
13.What is your daily routine on the ISS?
14.How are crew members chosen to go out on a space walk?
15.Which animal species are currently on board the ISS and what is their purpose?
16.Does seeing Earth from a distance give you and your crew a differentperspective on life?
17.What do you enjoy most about linking up with students from across the world aspart of this amazing ARISS program?
18.Many of my students have talked about their dream to become astronauts. Whatwould be your greatest advice for them?
ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur RadioContinuous Operations on the ISS
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, sponsorsare the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio RelayLeague (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s SpaceCommunications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promoteexploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematicstopics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew membersaboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students,educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, andamateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org
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