ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-38

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

[email protected]

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at

Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

 

July 27, 2023—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 MBRSC located in Dubai, UAE. 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.

 

The MBRSC is a Dubai government organization working on the UAE space program, which includes various space satellite projects, the Emirates Mars Mission, the Emirates Lunar Mission, and the UAE astronaut program. The MBRSC actively works to promote space science and research in the region with educational programs designed to promote a culture based on discovery and exploration in future generations at all education levels.  MBRSC is hosting this ARISS contact for high school students who will be asking questions in Arabic and/or English.

 

This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of Astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, amateur radio call sign KI5VTV. 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 at MBRSC, Dubai, UAE. Amateur radio operators using call sign A68MBR, will operate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for July 31, 2023 at 12:16:45 pm GST (Dubai, UAE) (8:16:45 UTC, 4:16 am EDT, 3:16 am CDT, 2:16 am MDT, 1:16 am PDT).

 

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

1. What happens to your body when you return to Earth after spending a long time in space?

2. How does the lack of gravity affect the growth of plants and crops on the ISS?

3. How do you take care of the ISS and keep it clean?

4. How do you deal with waste disposal on the ISS?

5. How do you manage the temperature inside the ISS?

6. Can you see the Northern Lights from the ISS? And how do they happen?

7. Can you describe the process of docking and undocking with other spacecraft or modules?

8. How does the ISS stay in its orbit when there is no gravity? Why doesn’t it fall or fly away in space?

9. How did it feel to be in a Spacesuit and how did you handle the heavy weight of it?

10. How does space weather, such as solar flares and geomagnetic storms and radiation, affect the safety and operations of the ISS?

11. When the 6 months mission ends, when do you start preparing to go back to earth and how do you prepare?

12. What new technologies are you using on ISS and how are you having benefit from it?

13. Where does the ISS get power from?

14. How do you wash your clothes on ISS?

15. Did your blood pressure change in Space and what effects does space have on it?

16. How do you feel after spending more than 4 months on the ISS while your return date to Earth is approaching?

17. What did you think of when the rocket started taking off to space?

 

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 (SCaN). 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

 

Media Contact:

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

                                                                              

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