ARISS News Release No.24-16
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
April 1, 2024—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and students at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University located in Daytona Beach, FL. ARISS conducts 60-100 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is a suburban, private school in Daytona Beach, Florida. ERAU provides for aviation and aerospace education, and maintains close ties with its space neighbors (Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and the Kennedy Space Center). Its College of Engineering offers an engineering undergraduate program with more than 2,000 students enrolled. In February 2024, the college’s EagleCam project also became the first university student-built payload to land on the Moon. ERAU has partnered with Volusia County Public Schools with over 300 students from Creekside Middle School, Deltona Middle School, Heritage Middle School, Ormond Beach Middle School and River Springs Middle School attending this on-campus ARISS contact event. Participating amateur radio organizations include the Daytona Beach Amateur Radio Association (DBARA) and the ERAU Amateur Radio Association (NN4ER), helping with technical operation of the amateur satellite radio station for this ARISS contact.
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of astronaut Matthew Dominick, amateur radio call sign KCØTOR. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relay ground station.
The amateur radio ground station for this contact is in Daytona Beach, FL. Amateur radio operators using call sign NN4ER, will operate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for April 3, 2024 at 11:22 am EDT (Florida, USA) (15:22 UTC, 10:22 am CDT, 9:22 am MDT, 8:22 am PDT).
The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/eraudaytona/
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. How do you clean the ISS when someone or something makes a mess?
2. What do astronauts study while in space for long periods of time?
3. What is your degree(s) in and how do they correlate to your research?
4. How are disagreements resolved on board?
5. What would you have to do if the ISS lost all communication connection with Earth?
6. How has your experience living on the ISS shaped your perspective on the importance of international cooperation in space exploration?
7. What inspired you to be an astronaut?
8. Do you do art in space and what kind of projects?
9. What is the most beautiful thing you have seen on Earth?
10. What are the most significant challenges astronauts face in maintaining physical and mental health during long duration space trips?
11. Did any certain person, teacher or event help inspire you to become an astronaut?
12. Is the view of the starry sky from space different from that on Earth, and how?
13. What are some of the most unexpected things you’ve seen or heard in space?
14. What is most fun experiment you have done on board the ISS?
15. What do you guys do in case of a solar storm?
16. What is one thing that is more fun to do on the ISS than on Earth?
17. What might you have done with your life if you never became an astronaut?
About ARISS:
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the ISS. In the United States, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org
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Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
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