ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.   21-46   

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

ARISS Contact is Scheduled for Students at

Carl Fuhlrott-Gymnasium, Wuppertal, Germany

 

August 19, 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 direct contact via amateur radio between students at the Carl Fuhlrott-Gymnasium, and Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, amateur radio call sign KE5DNI. Students will take turns asking their questions. Appropriate 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 radio relay ground station.

 

Amateur radio operators, using the call sign DN1CFG will operate the ham radio ground station for this contact.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for August 23, 2021 at 9:54:53 am CEST (Wuppertal, DE), (7:54 UTC, 3:54 am EDT, 2:54 am CDT, 1:54 am MDT and 12:54 am PDT).

 

Carl-Fuhlrott-Gymnasium (CFG) (with students ages 10-19 years), provides curricula leading to the A-levels (“Abitur”), an exam which entitles their students to study any subject at any university. CFG is a certified European School and also certified as a MINT (STEM equivalent) excellence center. Their MINT/STEM curriculum includes courses in Astronomy and collaborates with Bergische Universität to provide astronomy training for students and teachers. Students’ extracurricular activities include using the school’s onsite astronomical observatory that has six telescopes (Celestron C11) and one Planewave CDK20. Amateur radio is also part of student activities with an onsite amateur radio station and planned activities that would involve studies in radio astronomy, and software defined radio. Students have participated in the launching and radio tracking of a high-altitude balloon flight and have used that experience to prepare for this ARISS contact.

 

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

 

1.  How do you like being in space and what do you do all day?

2.  How do you brush your teeth up there? Can you take a shower?

3.  Do you live sustainably on the ISS?

4.  What do you do in your free time? I hope you have some at all.

5.  Do astronauts have privacy? How do you manage living with so many astronauts in a confined space?

6.  Does zero gravity and the remoteness of the station have any effects on your psyche?

7.  Are there any implicit rules among the astronauts and cosmonauts on the ISS?

8.  Did you take any personal items with you to remind you of your expedition?

9.  Where does the oxygen on the ISS come from? Is the photobioreactor experiment using algae still working and which usage could it have?

10.  How does an EVA-activity feel?

11. Have you ever experienced/seen anything that you could not explain scientifically?

12.  At our observatory, we have observed several exoplanets with the transition method. Do you also have experiments on sky observation on the ISS? Maybe even exoplanets?

13.  How optimistic are you while searching for black matter?

14.  How does zero gravity influence muscle building and muscle loss during and after your mission? Could you help influence this with muscle building drugs?

15.  Sufficient sleep forms the basis for an effective muscle build-up. Is it therefore necessary to prepare yourselves for sleeping in the Space station or do you need to get used to the conditions first

to get a restful sleep?

16.  What do you think of private companies building rockets for manned space flight instead of the national space agencies?

17.  Do you think it will be possible to live on Mars or on other planets until 2050, as Elon Musk plans to?

18.  Is CIMON-2 still with you on the ISS? What would you like a robot companion do for you?

19.  What are the advantages of cancer research in space? Are there already any benefits for patients on Earth?    

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ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Continuous Amateur Radio 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

ARISS PR

                                                                              

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