ARISS News Release No.24-58

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at

213 RCSCC Qu’Appelle (Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corp), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

October 2, 2024—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 Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corp located in Winnipeg, Canada. ARISS conducts 60-100 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.

The Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps (RCSCC) Qu’Appelle was formed on February 23, 1968. RCSCC Qu’Appelle is one of 4 Sea Cadet Corps in the City of Winnipeg. The Cadet Program is a national program for youth between the ages of 12 to 18 and is supported by both the Department of National Defense and the civilian counterpart of the Sponsoring Committee.

This will be a telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of astronaut Jeanette Epps, amateur radio call sign KF5QNU. 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 telebridge station.

The ARISS amateur radio ground station (telebridge station) for this contact is in Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S. The amateur radio volunteer team at the ground station will use the callsign K6DUE, to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 5, 2024 at 11:05 am CDT (Winnipeg) (16:05 UTC, 12:05 pm EDT, 10:05 am MDT, 9:05 am PDT).

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

1. How do astronauts drink on the space station?

2. What are day to day activities like on the space station?

3. Do you always float on the space station?

4. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you on the space station and how has that impacted you?

5. What is the training like to become an astronaut?

6. How long did it take you to be an astronaut?

7. How do you exercise?

8. What is your morning routine?

9. What’s the toughest thing you have to deal with being in space?

10. How has this experience changed your life?

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 ISS. In the United States, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. 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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