ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.21-51

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students from France at

Lycée Pierre Paul Riquet in St Orens De Gameville

and CSUT University Space Center of Toulouse

 

September 30, 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 in France at Lycée Pierre Paul Riquet in St Orens De Gameville and CSUT University Space Center of Toulouse. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISS Astronaut Thomas Pesquet, amateur radio call sign KG5FYG, during the ARISS radio contact. 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 ARISS radio telebridge station.

 

The ARISS team in Casale Monferrato, Italy will use call sign IK1SLD to serve as the ARISS relay amateur radio ground station.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 2, 2021 at 2:40 pm CEST (Toulouse, France) (12:40 UTC, 8:40 am EDT, 7:40 am CDT, 6:40 am MDT, 5:40 am PDT).

 

Lycée Pierre-Paul Riquet (1,500 students, age 15 – 18 years) is a general and technological high school providing scientific, economic, literary or technological baccalaureates. The school also provides students space-related courses that are applicable to a career in aerospace industry. Their STEM curricula have incorporated radio science, satellite orbital mechanics, and radio receiver construction in preparation for the ARISS contact, and the history of ham radio communications in space. The high school students have also been working with the University Space Center of Toulouse (CSUT) and members of the amateur radio club of the University (F4KLD) in preparation for this contact. The ham radio club members worked with students on several activities that included: radio reception using an SDR dongle; radio reception of amateur satellites or weather satellites; fox hunting; ISS-tracking visually and using APRS.

The University Space Centre of Toulouse (CSUT) was created in 2016 and its purpose is to develop collaborative small-scale (CubeSats) space system projects and bring together academic people and researchers and higher education students. More than 50 students from the University’s Master Degree of Electronic are directly involved in the ARISS contact and have worked with the 100 high school students from Lycée Pierre Paul Riquet also directly involved around this contact.

 

View the live stream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgl8lELDcgA

 

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

1.  Si vous retourniez en enfance, qu'est-ce que vous auriez aimé voir comme mise en scè ne du spatial dans la culture pop?

2.  Concevez-vous le métier de spationaute comme plus difficile pour les femmes, dans la mesure où les femmes sont bien moins présentes que leurs homologues masculins dans la conquête spatiale?

3.  Quel est votre ressenti vis à vis des contraintes pour communiquer avec vos proches?

4.  Qu'est-ce qui vous pousse à aller dans l'espace malgré les problèmes que cela pourrait causer sur votre santé?

5.  S’il y a une catastrophe naturelle et qu’elle perturbe les communications de l’ISS avec la Terre, comment vous en sortez-vous?

6.  Nous avons entendu dire que, avant de dormir, vous voyez des flashs bleus causés par les radiations spatiales, est-ce vrai?

7.  L'expérience éducative TETRISS des étudiants de l'IUT de Toulouse doit permettre de visualiser des ondes en 3D. Avez-vous déjà réalisé une expérience comme celle-ci?

8.  Un étudiant sourd a participé au développement de l'expérience TETRIS. Quel message voudriez-vous passer aux malentendants passionnés par l’Espace?

9.  Nous aimerions savoir si, comme dans le film Sergio and Sergei, vous avez déjà capté, dans l’ISS, par erreur des signaux de radioamateurs venant de la Terre?

10.  Pour la préparation de votre mission, est ce vous avez dû mettre entre parenthèse votre vie de famille, est ce que c’est compliqué de la maintenir?

11.  Est-ce que vous avez hésité et est-ce que ça vous faisait peur de partir dans l’espace?

12.  Comment vivez-vous le fait d’être aussi loin de la Terre?

13.  Lors de vos différentes missions dans l'espace, avez-vous constaté une évolution de la déforestation sur Terre?

14.  Quelles sont les qualités qui vous ont permis d'être recruté par l'ESA et de devenir spationaute?

15.  Si un jour vous avez l’opportunité d’aller sur la Lune, quelle serait votre première pensée lors de votre premier pas sur le sol lunaire?

16.  Durant cette mission, appréhendez-vous d'être le commandant de bord de l’ISS?

17.  Au-delà du métier de spationaute, avez-vous encore des rêves?

18.  Ressentez-vous des effets du vent solaire dans l’espace?

19.  Entendez-vous les sons comme sur la Terre?

20.  Aviez vous un modèle qui vous a motivé à devenir spationaute?

 

Translation

 

1.  If you had to go back to when you were a kid, what sorts of representations of space would you like to see in pop culture?

2.  Do you consider the job of astronaut more difficult for women, knowing that there are less women than men in the space domain?

3.  How do you feel about the constraints of communicating with your loved ones?

4.  What drives you to go to space despite the health problems it could cause?

5.  If there is a natural disaster which disturbs the communications between the ISS and the Earth, what will happen for you?

6.  We heard that before sleeping you see blue flashes because of space radiations, is that true?

7.  The TETRISS educational experiment of the students from the University Technology Institute of Toulouse should make it possible to visualize waves in 3D. Have you ever conducted an experiment like this?

8.  A deaf student has taken part in the development of the TETRIS experiment. What message would you like to deliver to hearing-impaired people who are enthusiastic about Space?

9.  We'd like to know if, as in the film Sergio and Sergei, you've already mistakenly received amateur radio signals from Earth in the ISS?

10. When preparing for your mission, did you have to put your family life on hold, and is it complicated to maintain it?

11. Did you hesitate and were you scared of going to space?

12. How do you live the fact of being so far from Earth?

13. During your missions in space, have you noticed an evolution of deforestation on Earth?

14. What are the qualities required to be an astronaut and be hired by the ESA?

15. If one day you have the opportunity to go to the Moon, what will be your first thought for your first step on the lunar soil?

16. For this mission, are you apprehensive about being the ISS captain?

17. Beyond being an astronaut, do you still have dreams

18. Do you feel the effects of solar flare in space?

19. Can you hear sounds the same as on Earth?

20. Do you have a model that inspired you for this job?

 

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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