ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.22-35

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at

Scuola media San Pietro, Nuoro, Sardegna, Italy

 

June 4, 2022—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and Italian students at the Scuola media S. Pietro located in Nuoro, Sardegna.  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.

 

San Pietro Primary School is located in “Santu Predu”, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the heart of Nuoro’s old town. With a rich history and cultural heritage, this area is the birth place of Grazia Deledda, Sebastiano Satta and Francesco Ciusa Romagna. The school has partnered with the Nuorese Astronomical Association, which helps students learn about astronomical and terrestrial phenomena using their digital planetarium facilities. Students have also studied data recovered from probes launched to 100,000 feet elevation to study the Earth’s stratosphere. These probes have provided data that help students understand more about the earth’s climate/climate change (weather recordings), the solar cycle, the Earth’s electromagnetic field, and photos/video of their island home. In preparation for this ARISS radio contact students are also learning about the research being conducted on the ISS.  

 

This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, amateur radio call sign IZØUDF. Local Covid-19 protocols are adhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 437.525 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 Nuoro, Sardegna, Italy. The amateur radio operators at the ground station will use the callsign IKØWGF, to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for June 6, 2022 at 1:43 pm CEST (Nuoro, IT)

(11:43 UTC, 7:43 am EDT, 6:43 am CDT, 5:43 am MDT, 4:43 am PDT).

 

The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://youtube.com/channel/UCVmGUvZkLAMhErRQQ6AkVMA

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

 

1. Quale esperienza o episodio particolare la indotta a diventare astronauta?

2. Sei felice all’idea che sei diventata famose in Europa?

3. Se potesse portare una persona nella ISS, al difuori della sua famiglia, chi porterebbe e perché?

4. Secondo te c’è più di un sistema solare con altre forme di vita?

5. Durante l’intera missione Le è capitato di aver paura?

6. Quale è il suo cantante preferito, Le capita di ascoltare musica a bordo della ISS?

7. Quale parte dell’addestramento è la più difficile?

8. Sulla ISS avete anche dei momenti di divertimento?

9. Tutti da bambini sogniamo di essere astronauti, com’è per lei esserci arrivata, e qual’ è il suo sogno?

10. Che tipo di esperimenti svolge sulla ISS, e che ricaduta potrebbero avere sulla vita quotidiana?

11. Vorresti vivere o andare su un altro pianeta se fosse possibile?

12. Chi guida la stazione spaziale?

13. Quanto tempo e impegno dedichi alla divulgazione per spingere altre donne nella carriera di astronauta?

14. Perché il nome della missione Minerva?

15. Quale messaggio vorresti dare a tutta l'umanità dalla ISS?

 

Translation

 

1. What experience, or particular episode induced you to become an astronaut?

2. Are you happy with the idea that you have become famous in Europe?

3. If you could bring a person into the ISS, outside his family, who would he bring and why?

4. Do you think there is more than one solar system with other forms of life?

5. During the entire mission did you happened to be afraid?

6. Who is your favorite singer? Do you happen to listen to music aboard the ISS?

7. Which part of the training is the most difficult?

8. Do you have moments of fun on ISS?

9. As children, we all dream of being astronauts, how is it for you to have arrived there, and what is your dream?

10. What kind of experiments do you do on ISS, and what impact they might have on daily life?

11. Would you like to live or go to another planet if it were possible?

12. Who drives the space station?

13. How much time and effort do you dedicate to disclosure to push other women into the astronaut career?

14. Why the name of the Minerva mission?

15. What message would you like to give to all humanity from the ISS?

 

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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Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

                                                                              

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