ARISS News Release No.23-14
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at
Collège Saint-Anatoile, Salins-Les-Bains, France
April 4, 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 the Collège Saint-Anatoile, located in Salins-Les-Bains, France. 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.
Saint Anatoile secondary school is a French private catholic school located in a rural area in the department of Jura (258,000 population), Burgundy, Franche Comté region. In conjunction with hosting this ARISS contact, the school has developed a 2-year "ARISS contact" project to provide students a real opportunity to discover and understand an environment that is unknown to most of them. The objectives of the project are to deepen the scientific and linguistic knowledge of the students through workshops, and various STEM projects incorporated in their curriculum. All students participated in the project (about 100 pupils aged 11 to 14). Supporting this contact are members of the amateur radio club (F6KSD) and radio amateurs of the Assocition Réseau des Emetteurs Français (R.E.F.25) who held workshops for students in grades 6 and 9. These workshops covered topics that included: an introduction to amateur radio, Morse code, Q code, radio directional-finding, rules of communicating on amateur satellites (using satellite QO-100), orbital mechanics, wave propagation, and much more.
This will be a telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of Astronaut Steve Bowen, amateur radio call sign KI5BKB. 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 Aartselaar, Belgium. The amateur radio volunteer team at the ground station will use the callsign ON4ISS, to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for April 7, 2023 at 4:27 pm CEST (France) (14:27:26 UTC, 10:27 am EDT, 9:27 am CDT, 8:27 am MST, 7:27 am PDT).
The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=UCy6st8UemV-88B0PbRlT5sw or the school Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@technofg/streams
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. Can the effects of global warming be seen from the Space Station?
2. Does weightlessness change the way you breathe?
3. Do you plant seeds in order to have vegetables and eat them?
4. Do you still have the notion of time inside the ISS?
5. What did you like the most when you first entered the ISS?
6. Why did you want to become an astronaut?
7. How is it possible to sleep in the space station with weightlessness?
8. Have you discovered anything unusual or strange during your last missions?
9. How can the Space Station supply itself with electricity?
10. How do you feel to be one of the few people to go into space?
11. What do you do with your waste?
12. What do you do if someone gets hurt?
13. What is the interest of weightlessness in your research?
14. What constraints do you encounter when you return to Earth in order to regain a normal life?
15. How long is the air reserve of the spacesuits?
16. How do you cook in space?
17. How did you feel during the take-off of the shuttle?
18. Is it hard to walk when you come back on Earth?
19. What is the best activity you have done in space so far?
20. How do you feel weightlessness now, as you are talking to us?
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, Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) and NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN). 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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