ARISS News Release No.23-63
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
aa4kn@amsat.org
FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at
Harbor Creek School, Harborcreek, Pennsylvania, USA
December8, 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 Harbor Creek School in Harborcreek, PA. ARISS conducts 60-80 of these special amateur radio contacts each yearbetween students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboardthe ISS.
Harbor Creek Senior High School provides students STEM-relatedlearning activities that include the opportunity to join/participate in the school’samateur radio and STEM club - Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) (KC3SGV). About30 of ATG’s student club members (grades 7-12) have been preparing for thisARISS contact - having built the antennas, and learning the various systems andskills needed to make a successful ISS contact, with many of these students havingearned their FCC ham licenses. For this ARISS contact, students will be using ATG’sradio station. ATG’s past activitieshave included high-altitude balloon launches, amateur radio competitions, foxhunting, and Geocaching. Earlier this year, students launched a high-altitudeballoon that had live APRS tracking, weather data collection instruments, GPStracking, and live HD video broadcast for most of the flight. Other2023 club projects allowed students to learn astrophotography using a trackingmount and software, discover how to map the universe’s hydrogen levels through radioastronomy, and receive images of the Earth from the NOAA GOES satellite. Theschool has also partnered with members of the Wattsburg Wireless Association,Amateur Radio Club (K3WWA), who have provided, and continues to providestudents very helpful support.
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions ofAstronaut Andreas Mogensen, amateur radio call sign KG5GCZ. 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 Harborcreek, PA. Amateur radio operators using call sign KC3SGV, willoperate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for December 11, 2023 at 8:45 am EST (PA, USA)(13:45 UTC, 7:45 am CST, 6:45 am MST, 5:45 am PST).
The public is invitedto watch the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/@AdvancedTechnologiesGroup
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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:
1.How will the work astronauts are doing today helphumanity in the future?
2.How soon do you see living in space as a possibility in the future?
3.Do you believe we are alone in the universe, and why?
4.What is the hardest thing to acclimate to on the ISS?
5.What is the most fun or interesting thing about living in space that you wouldnot be able to do on earth?
6.What is the first thing you plan to do when you get back to Earth? (Notrequired NASA stuff.)
7.What is the biggest challenge in future space exploration?
8.What other professions were you interested in prior to NASA, and are you stillinterested in them?
9.What or who inspired you to become an astronaut?
10.What was the biggest challenge you had to face in order to become an astronaut,and why?
11.Why do you think that space exploration is important?
12.How long did it take you to adapt to zero G?
13.What tasks do you enjoy doing the most and least on the ISS?
14.What do you see as the future of space flight?
15.What is something you didn't expect to miss about living on Earth, after beingon board the ISS?
16.How do you see private companies and NASA working together in the future?
17.What was your most challenging experience in space?What made the experience so challenging?
18.Did you have any concerns about your travel when you first went into space, anddo you still have these concerns?
19.Were there any times where you felt it was never possible to become anastronaut, and why?
20.Can you describe the diversity of the crew on ISS,and how you work together to accomplish the mission?
21.How do you stay in touch with your family while onboard the ISS?
22.What was the first thing you missed about Earth, and why?
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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