ARISS News Release No.24-31
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at
Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Serafim Leite, São João da Madeira, Portugal
June 4, 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 Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Serafim Leite located in São João da Madeira, Portugal. 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.
Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Serafim Leite has more than 800 students, aged 6 through 18 years. All levels of students are involved in the preparation of this ARISS contact. Prior to this contact, the class curricular included material related to the study of space, communication, and technology that focus on “Climatic Emergency”. School clubs (Programming and Robotics and Astronomy) have included activities that demonstrated tracking of the ISS and observation of nearby stars and planets. Local amateur radio operators are supporting the school during this contact.
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of astronaut Matthew Dominick, amateur radio call sign KCØTOR. 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 São João da Madeira. Amateur radio operators using call sign CS2ASL, will operate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for June 6, 2024 at 11:33:44 am WEST (Portugal) (10:33:44 UTC, 6:33 am EDT, 5:33 am CDT, 4:33 am MDT, 3:33 am PDT).
The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/live/15Na--NoW1Y
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. How many hours of exercise should an astronaut do each day?
2. Do you have any specific type of food when you are on mission?
3. How long do astronauts train to be able to go on space missions?
4. Whom and what do you miss most?
5. Tell us about your adventure in space.
6. What recent advances in space exploration do you believe have a significant impact on future space exploration and/or in society in general?
7. At what speed does ISS move? And how many orbits do you manage to conclude in 24 hours?
8. What are the most challenging scientific goals that space missions are trying to achieve?
9. What made you become astronauts?
10. What feeling do you have when travelling into space?
11. What does it feel like to gravitate?
12. What is your daily routine like?
13. What effects does space have on the human body and how do you control them?
14. When you have a health problem, what do you do?
15. How many G-forces do you experience on the liftoff and landing and how does it feel?
16. Can you deal well with the little contact you have with the social world on Earth?
17. In case you have to get outside the international space station, how long do the suits have oxygen autonomy?
18. How do you feel having a job that millions of kids wish to have in their future?
19. Do you have any free time? If so, what do you do?
20. What is the most beautiful thing you’ve seen in space?
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
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Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
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