ARISS News Release No.23-56
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
aa4kn@amsat.org
FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at
St Peter in Thanet CE Junior School, Broadstairs,Kent, United Kingdom
October15, 2023—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboardthe International Space Station (ISS) and students at St Peter Junior School inBroadstairs, UK. ARISS conducts 60-80 ofthese special amateur radio contacts each year between students around theglobe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.
St Peter is a three form entry junior school located inBroadstairs, a small seaside town on the South East coast of England. St Peter’s students(ages 7 – 11) have been taking part in activities in ‘Mission Zero’ where they writea program to display a personalized image on an Astro Pi computer on board theISS to remind the astronauts of home. Students have also been taking part inthe FUNcube project (tracking an active LEO Satellite - FUNcube-1/AO-73), andparticipating in a community stargazing event assisted by members of RamsgateStargazers. The school’s science club has also engaged students in space-relatedactivities that include learning the difficulties of traveling to space,designing and launching rockets (using water and air), and living on the ISS(and designing solutions that may help overcome these difficulties). Members of the Hilderstone Radio Society(G0HRS) have been fundamentalin advising and supporting the school during these activities and during thisARISS contact.
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio and students will take turns asking their questionsof Astronaut Loral O’Hara, amateur radio call sign KI5TOM. The downlinkfrequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard by listeners thatare within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relay ground station.
The amateur radio ground station for this contactis in Broadstairs, UK. Amateur radio operators using call sign GB4SPT, willoperate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 18, 2023 at 10:57:49 am BST (UK) (9:57:49UTC, 5:57 am EDT, 4:57 am CDT, 3:57 am MDT,2:57 am PDT).
Thepublic is invited to watch the live stream at: https://youtube.com/live/g74NbsTEvVw?feature=share
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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:
1.Is it hot or cold in space, and if it’s hot how do you keep cool and if it’scold how do you keep warm in your spacesuit?
2.Is it really true that girls are better suited to space than boys?
3.How do you tell if it's night or day on the international space station?
4.Would you be happy to live in space for the rest of your life if you were toldto?
5.What are your thoughts about space travel in the future for mankind?
6.In the future will we be able to take holidays to the international spacestation?
7.Do you think living organisms will ever be found in space, and if so what couldthey be?
8.Do you get dizzy in space when you are not moving? Or does the lack of gravitymean that you do not get dizzy?
9.Does the ISS shake when a Soyuz spacecraft docks?
10.I know we can measure gravity, but what is gravity?
11.What is the furthest distance a human has travelled away from Planet Earth?
12.What would happen if you played on a swing in space?
13.What is the most amazing thing you have seen on earth from the space station?
14.How do fires behave in space?
15.Have you seen any comets?
16.How much work do you have to do on the space station each day, and what do youdo in your spare time?
17.My brother and I love space, my brother especially loves the moon. We wouldlove to be able to explore space one day. What advice can you give us, to helpour dreams come true?
18.What did you study in school to become an astronaut?
19.How does the space station renew the oxygen inside the station?
20.What is different about growing plants in space and do you think we'll be ableto grow food for long term space missions?
21.Will there be a point soon when you can watch Netflix or use your mobile phonein Space - as you are near the satellites that operate the signals?
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 American Radio Relay League(ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur SatelliteCorporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN)and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS isto 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 http://www.ariss.org
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