ARISS News Release No. 21-08
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at
The Ottawa Carleton Virtual Online School, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
February 4, 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 Ottawa Carleton District School Board. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISS astronaut Mike Hopkins, amateur radio call sign KF5LJG, during the ARISS radio contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz.
ARISS team member Fred Kemmerer, using his call sign AB1OC in New Hampshire, will serve as the relay amateur radio station. Each student asking a question on the ARISS radio will be conferenced in from home. English is the language expected to be used during the contact.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for February 5, 2021 at 12:41 pm EST (Ottawa, Canada) (17:41 UTC, 11:41 am CST, 10:41 am MST, 9:41 am PST).
The Ottawa Carleton Virtual Online School provides approximately 300 minutes of daily, instructor-led, online classes for students in Ottawa. Each class provides 20 to 25 students learning opportunities through synchronous and asynchronous learning by using either Virtual Learning Environment or Google Classroom learning management systems. Seventeen classes will participate in this ARISS contact.
View the live stream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at https://youtu.be/Ery1JYmk72o .
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. How does it fell to see the sun, Earth, moon and stars from space?
2. Do you think extraterrestrial beings exist?
3. Has anything scared you in space and if so how did you deal with it?
4. How long does it take to come back to earth from the International Space Station?
5. What is the coolest thing you have seen while in space?
6. How can you tell if it’s day or night?
7. What is a dangerous threat that could happen on the ISS, and what could you do to solve it?
8. What is the most frightening thing you have ever seen in space?
9. What experiments are you doing now on the ISS?
10. What is the biggest challenge in space?
11. How long did you have to train to become an astronaut?
12. What are the steps involved in leaving the rocket and entering Space Station?
13. Are there any cold or hot planets that have been discovered and not revealed to the world?
14. How long can you breathe in a space suit outside the space station?
15. What happens if there is a fire on the International Space Station?
16. Is COVID 19 a concern for astronauts?
17. What is it like to come back to Earth after being in Space for months at a time?
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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 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 learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.
Media Contact:
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
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