ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.22-49

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at

Tarbut College, Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

September 2, 2022—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 Tarbut College located in Buenos Aires.  ARISS conducts 60-80 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.

 

Tarbut College is a bilingual Jewish institution located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was founded in 1961 and has a student enrollment for Kindergarten up to Secondary grade School. Spanish, English and Hebrew are taught throughout the complete academic journey of every student. For this ARISS contact, the school has extended their existing curriculum on Space during the past 2 years to include classes about the ISS, ISS missions, and ISS communication. A dedicated weekly period for the students included classes about the Earth, space, space exploration history, space station life, satellites and radio communication. The members of the Radio Club Argentino are supporting the college during this ARISS contact.

 

This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio and students will take turns asking their questions of Astronaut Kjell Lindgren, amateur radio call sign KO5MOS. Local Covid-19 protocols are adhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. 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 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Amateur radio operators using call sign LU4AA, will operate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for September 5, 2022 at 11:47 am ART (Buenos Aires) (14:47:39 UTC, 10:47 am EDT, 9:47 am CDT, 8:47 am MDT, 7:47 am PDT).

 

 

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

1. How did you prepare to be an astronaut and go into the International Space Station?

2. Could you tell us how you traveled from Earth to the International Space Station? What did you feel during this trip?

3. Do you have windows inside the spaceship? What can you see from up there when you look at the Earth?

4. Can you see other planets from there? And what do the stars look like from the ISS?

 

5. How do you know where the ISS is supposed to be going when you are in space? Is there a pilot?

6. Is it cold in space?

7. How often do you have to fix something in the ISS?  And what kind of tools do you have?

8. Could you tell us a little bit about the experiments you and the rest of the crew are working on?

9. What do you do if you do not feel well or if you are hurt? Do you have a doctor in space? Do you have some kind of medicine to feel better?

10. Can you contact your family and friends from the ISS? How often do you talk to them and how do you do it?

11. What did you take with you into the ISS?  Did you take any personal items like pictures, a cell phone or games?

12. Do you feel different as a person after being in the ISS? Do you think this experience changed you in any way?

13. Which one is better? Living with gravity or without gravity?

14. After being in the ISS and seeing space, do you think there is life somewhere outside of Earth?

15. How do you think your body will react when you get back to Earth?

16. Do you have plans for your future, after this expedition?

 

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 International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) and NASA’s Space communications and Navigation program. 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 www.ariss.org

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Media Contact:

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

                                                                              

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