ARISS News Release No.22-14
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Youth Members of
Kids Star Club Sayama, Sayama, Japan
March 15, 2022—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between astronauts on-board the International Space Station (ISS) and Japan youth members of the Kids Star Club Sayama in Sayama, Japan. ARISS conducts 60-80 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on-board the ISS.
Prior to this ARISS event, the Kids Star Club has held an amateur radio licensing seminar for the youth members, as well as lessons about radio waves, electricity, and space. Those successfully licensed youth will participate in the Q&A portion of the ARISS event. English will be the language used for this contact.
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing these youth to take turns asking their questions of Astronaut Mark Vande Hei, amateur radio call sign KG5GNP. 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 ground station.
Kids Star Club youth members in Sayama, Japan will use the amateur radio ground station with call sign 8J1KSC to contact the ISS for this ARISS contact.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for March 17, 2022 at 7:21:47 pm JST (JPN) (10:21:47 UTC, 6:21 am EDT, 5:21 am CDT, 4:21 am MDT, 3:21 am PDT).
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. What is the most beautiful constellation that you can see from the ISS?
2. What was your job before becoming an astronaut and how does it influence your job now?
3. Did you see a lot of space debris from the ISS?
4. What food do you like to eat while in space?
5. What is the most unusual phenomenon that can be seen from space? What kind of phenomenon is it?
6. How does a paper airplane "fly" in the space station?
7. Can analog clocks work in space?
8. Do you think humans can really live in space?
9. How did you first feel when you got into space?
10. What do you want to do first when you return to Earth?
11. What do you enjoy the most in space?
12. How do you brush your teeth in space?
13. Which is easier, life with gravity or life without gravity?
14. How is the view of the sun rise from the ISS?
15. Is there any space food that can only be eaten in space?
16. What's the hardest thing you have ever done in space and how did you overcome that?
17. How do you feel when you look at Earth from 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. 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.
Media Contact:
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
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