ARISS News Release No.23-61
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at
Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Schule Eutin, Eutin, Germany, and Gymnasium im Loekamp, Marl, Germany
December 1, 2023—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 two schools located in Germany. ARISS conducts 60-80 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.
The Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Schule (CMVW) is a high school located in the heart of the city of Eutin, in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. CMVW offers a STEM curriculum from grade 5 to graduation, which is supplemented through extracurricular activities and projects. For this ARISS contact, members of Amateur Radio Association Eutin, are providing radio equipment and technical expertise.
The Gymnasium im Loekamp has about 800 students in classes from grade 5 up to level Q2 (grade 13) and 75 teachers. It is a full-time municipal school located in Marl, at the north rim of the Ruhr area in Germany, and about 260 miles southwest of Eutin. They also offer computer science as a compulsory subject for students in grades 5 and 6, as an elective from grades 7 to 13. Their 'Junior Engineering Academy' is a technical elective in grades 9 and 10 with additional STEM working groups that includes robotics and programming.
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students from both schools to ask their questions of Astronaut Andreas Mogensen, amateur radio call sign KG5GCZ. 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 relay ground station.
The amateur radio ground station for this contact is in Eutin, Germany. Amateur radio operators using call sign DKØOH, will operate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection and provide a telebridge contact with students at Gymnasium im Loekamp.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for December 4, 2023 at 12:36 pm CET (GER) (11:36 UTC, 6:36 am EST, 5:36 am CST, 4:36 am MST, 3:36 am PST).
The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://youtu.be/il4hZ40lO_o
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. What exciting experience fascinated you the most during your stay on the ISS?
2. Could you highlight a discovery that have already emerged through research conducted on the ISS?
3. We have a school project where we launch a weather balloon. Can you see a weather balloon at 40km altitude from the ISS?
4. Do you conduct experiments in space from the ISS and if so, what was the most exciting experiment?
5. Is there any muscle degradation due to weightlessness in space, and if so, what are the symptoms and countermeasures?
6. How do astronauts treat illnesses or medical emergencies while they are in space?
7. Is the time different in space than on Earth?
8. Does your voice change due to weightlessness or muscle loss when you stay on the ISS?
9. How do astronauts spend their free time in space?
10. How would you describe the dynamics and relationships among astronauts aboard the ISS, and did you know your colleagues before the mission?
11. What do you miss most from Earth in space and what will you miss most from the ISS on Earth?
12. How do you feel when you look out of the window to the earth and think of your family living there?
13. How have your expectations regarding your work on the ISS changed compared to your initial thought?
14. What are the main differences between training underwater and actually living in space, even though both conditions are weightless?
15. Don't you miss just sitting down there and does the weightlessness get annoying sometimes?
16. What is your biggest fear during a mission?
17. How is the food packaged on the ISS, and does it taste different than on Earth?
18. How is air quality maintained inside the space station?
19. How is water filtered from urine in the space toilet?
20. Do you believe in the existence of aliens?
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 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
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ARISS PR
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