ARISS News Release                                                                                                       No. 21-02   

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

ARISS Contact is Scheduled for

Students at Hisagi Junior High School, Zushi, Japan

 

January 18, 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 direct contact via amateur radio between students at the Hisagi Junior High School and astronaut Shannon Walker radio call sign KD5DXB. Both onsite and remote access will be provided to the student body at the time of the contact per Covid-19 guidelines. Amateur radio operators, using the callsign 8N1ZH will operate the ham radio ground station for this contact. Students will take turns asking their questions. English is the language to be used during the contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for January 20, 2021 at 5:17 pm JST (Zushi), (08:17 UTC, 3:17 am EST, 2:17 am CST, 1:17 am MST and 12:17 am PST).

 

The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://youtu.be/94C9pVIvO6I .

 

Hisagi Junior High School is a public school (about 480 students, grades 7 – 9) in the central part of Japan, about 50 km southwest of Tokyo. This ARISS contact will be a hands-on activity that will allow the students to learn more about the ISS and its purpose, and other space-travel related topics such as orbital mechanics. Students asking questions during this contact will be licensed amateur radio operators.

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

 

1. What kind of infection countermeasures are you taking against the COVID-19?

2. What was your driving force for the challenges?

3. I think it takes a lot of effort to become an astronaut, but is there any way to continue the effort?

4. What is the most beautiful view you have ever seen in space?

5. What can we do only in space?

6. What was scary in space?

7. What is the inconvenience of the Space Station?

8. What kind of space food do you like the best?

9. What do you want to do when you return to Earth?

10. What was the hardest part of training to become an astronaut?

11. What can only be seen from space?

12. What is the hardest work in space?

    

ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Continuous Amateur Radio 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 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 learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org

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Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

                                                                              

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