ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.21-31

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at

Ecole Elémentaire de Saint Leu Centre, Saint-Leu, France (Reunion Island)

 

May 22, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

 

This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio between the ISS and students from Ecole Elémentaire de Saint Leu Centre. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISS Astronaut Thomas Pesquet, amateur radio call sign KG5FYG. French is the language that will be used during the 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 ARISS radio telebridge station.

 

ARISS team member John Sygo in Paardekraal, South Africa, call sign ZS6JON will serve as the relay amateur radio station. Each student asking a question on the ARISS radio will be conferenced in from home or social-distanced at school.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for May 24, 2021 at 3:06 pm RET (Saint Leu, Reunion Island) (11:06 UTC, 7:06 am EDT, 6:06 am CDT, 5:06 am MDT, 4:06 am PDT).

 

Ecole Elémentaire de Saint Leu Centre (436 students), in the town of Saint-Leu, is a public primary school located on the west coast of Reunion Island, a region of the French Republic and an Indian Ocean island. Saint-Leu with a population of 35,000 is southwest of Reunion Island’s capital city, Saint-Denis. Members of the local amateur radio club (Association Réunionnaise des Radioamateurs) have supported the school.

 

View the live stream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at   (517) Space Chat - Ecole Elémentaire de Saint Leu Centre, Saint Leu, France - YouTube .

 

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

 

1. Qu'est-ce qui vous a donné envie de devenir spationaute?

2. Lors du décollage du Crew 2, au mois d'avril, avez-vous ressenti les mêmes sensations qu'en 2016?

3. Quelle sensation la plus intense ressentez-vous lors d'une sortie extravéhiculaire?

4. Lors des sorties extravéhiculaires, n'avez-vous pas peur d'être touché par un débris spatial?

5. A votre avis, combien de temps un homme peut-il rester au maximum dans l'ISS?

6. Comment faites-vous pour avoir toujours de l'air respirable dans l'ISS et que faites-vous des gaz que vous expirez?

7. Comme nous, élèves, avez-vous un emploi du temps bien précis chaque jour?

8. Est-ce que l'utilisation du casque de réalité virtuelle vous apporte un bien-être psychologique lorsque vous faites du sport?

9. En plus du sport quotidien, les astronautes doivent-ils suivre un régime alimentaire spécial durant leur mission?

10. Est-ce qu'être commandant de bord de l'ISS vous amène des responsabilités supplémentaires?

11. Où en êtes-vous avec votre expérience sur le blob?

12. Lors de la mission Proxima, vous aviez fait des cultures de plantes en micropesanteur. Les plantes se développent-elles plus vite ou moins vite dans l'espace?

13. En 2016, vous aviez emmené avec vous votre saxophone, un volant de badminton. Qu'avez-vous emmené de spécial cette fois-ci?

14. Pouvez-vous voir une île aussi petite que la Réunion à l'oeil nu depuis l'ISS?

15. Même si vous savez que vous êtes relié à l'ISS par un cable, lors des sorties extravéhiculaires, avez-vous peur de lâcher l'ISS pour effectuer les réparations?

16. Avez-vous quelqu'un qui vous inspire dans la vie?

17. Après 6 mois passés dans l'ISS, combien de temps dure l'adaptation pour revenir à une vie normale?

18. Mis à part votre expérience sur les cellules du cerveau, sur quelle autre expérience aimez-vous travailler?

19. Est-ce que vivre 16 couchers et levers de soleil par jour n'est pas perturbant pour le sommeil?

20. Etes-vous partant pour une troisième mission dans l'ISS ou ailleurs?

 

Translation

 

1. What gave you the most the desire of being an astronaut?

2. In April when the Crew 2 took off, did you feel the same sensations such as in 2016?

3. Which sensations is the most intense for you during an extra vehicular exit?

4. During an extra vehicular exit aren't you afraid of being hurt by a space debris?

5. In your opinion how long can a man stay in the ISS to the maximum?

6. How can you still have breathable air in the ISS with the gas you expire?

7. Do you have a specific and tight schedule each day as we have as students?

8. Does the use of the virtual reality headset bring you psychological well-being when you do sports?

9. In addition to daily exercise, do astronauts have to follow a special diet during their mission?

10. Does the fact of being the captain of the ISS lead to additional responsibilities?

11. What are the results about experiments on blob?

12. During Proxima mission you made some plants grow in microgravity. Do these plants grow faster or slower in space?

13. In 2016 you brought your sax and a badminton shuttlecock with you in the ISS. What have you brought with you this time?

14. Can you see a tiny island such as Reunion Island with the naked eye from the ISS? 

15. Even if you're linked with a cable to the space station, are you afraid of being unhooked when you have to make any repairs?

16. Is there someone who is your inspiration in life?

17. After six months in the ISS, how long does it take to get back and adapt to your usual common life?

18. Except from your experiments on brain cells, which experiment would you like to work on?

19. Aren't you disturbed to sleep with 16 sunrises and sunsets a day?

20. Are you ready to go for a third mission in the ISS or elsewhere?

 

ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur Radio Continuous Operations on 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, 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

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