ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.21-39

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students in France at

Collège Albert Camus in La Norville and Université Paris-Saclay in Saint-Aubin

 

June 15, 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 from these two schools. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISS Astronaut Thomas Pesquet, amateur radio call sign KG5FYG. French is the language expected to be used during the contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners who are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the ARISS radio telebridge station.

 

ARISS team member Jan Poppeliers in Aartselaar, Belgium using radio call sign ON4ISS, will serve as the ARISS relay amateur radio station. Each student asking a question on the ARISS radio will be conferenced in from home or social-distanced at school.

 

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for June 17, 2021 at 1:40 pm CEST (La Norville, France) (11:40 UTC, 7:40 am EDT, 6:40 am CDT, 5:40 am MDT, 4:40 am PDT).

Course preparations and learning activities prior to this ARISS contact have been a combined effort between two schools: Collège Albert Camus (Middle School) and Université Paris-Saclay; and members of the amateur radio club of Viry-Châtillon (F5KEE).

 

Collège Albert Camus (about 300 students ages 11-15) is in La Norville in a rural area, about 40 km south of Paris.  The school provides students a classical STEM French curriculum with additional courses/activities focused on space-related sciences.

 

Université Paris-Saclay, in the Orsay/Gif/Saclay area offers Bachelor, Master and Doctorate programs, including mathematics, physics, medicine, and agriculture. The University internal colleges offer programs in science and engineering, life sciences and health, social sciences and humanities. Its 275 labs shared with CEA, CNRS, ONERA (French research labs) involve 48,000 students, 9,000 teachers and teacher-researchers, and 11,000 technical and administrative staff.

Members of the amateur radio club of Viry-Châtillon offer students instruction on radio communication—activities/workshops on radio theory/practice, intro to Morse code, antenna-building, fox-hunting, radio receiver building, and amateur radio regulations. The club will support the school during the contact.

 

View the live stream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04k4RGNxlgU&list=TLPQMTUwNjIwMjGIS3GJchfc6g&index=2

 

 

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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

 

1. Avez-vous ressenti au second décollage les mêmes émotions qu’au premier?

2. A votre retour dans l’ISS avez-vous retrouvé vos réflexes?

3. Qu’est-ce que vous trouvez compliqué en apesanteur?

4. Quelle est l’influence de l’apesanteur sur les 5 sens?

5. Dans l’Espace rêve-t-on qu’on est en apesanteur?

6. Quelles sortes d’expériences réalisez-vous dans l’ISS?

7. Quelles responsabilités aurez-vous en tant que commandant de bord?

8. Qu’est ce qui est le plus important pour vous derrière le nom de votre mission ALPHA?

9. Faites-vous des choses différemment lors de votre 2eme mission?

10. Quand on est en sortie extra véhiculaire, est-ce qu’on pense à l’Espace autour de soi?

11. Appréciez-vous de la même manière les plats de Thierry Marx et Raphaël Haumont qui ont été préparés pour vous dans l’Espace?

12. Qu’est-ce qui vous émerveille le plus dans l’Espace?

13. Quel principal conseil pouvez-vous donner à la future sélection des astronautes?

14. Quelle influence espérez-vous avoir sur la jeunesse?

15. Vu de l’espace, qu'observez-vous de la présence de l’Homme et de ses dégâts?

16. Pensez-vous que l'on pourra trouver les moyens d'une alimentation durable lors d'un long voyage spatial, par exemple avec des micro-algues?

17. En quoi votre expérience sur l'ISS permet de préparer les prochaines missions vers Mars?

18. Quelles compétences de votre formation vous sont utiles aujourd’hui pour commander cette mission?

19. Comment gérez-vous psychologiquement la présence du vide?

 

Translation

 

1. Did you feel the same emotions on the second launch as you did on the first one?

2. When you returned to the ISS, did you get back into your old habits?

3. What do you find complicated in zero gravity?

4. What is the influence of weightlessness onto the five senses?

5. In space, do we dream that we are weightless?

6. What kind of experiments do you perform on the ISS?

7. What responsibilities will you have as the ISS captain?

8. What is the most important thing for you behind the name of the mission ALPHA?

9. Are you doing things any differently on your second mission?

10. When you're on an EVA, do you think about the space all around you?

11. Do you enjoy Thierry Marx’s and Raphaël Haumont’s dishes as much in space as you do on the ground?

12. What amazes you most about Space?

13. What advice would you give to the future selection of astronauts?

14. What influence do you hope to have on the younger generation?

15. As seen from space, what can you make of the presence of humankind and its damage?

16. Do you think we will be able to find a type of sustainable food which could be grown or cultivated during a long space trip, such as micro-algae?

17. How does your experience on the ISS help prepare for future crewed missions to Mars?

18. What skills acquired through your educational background and training are useful to you today to command this mission?

19. How do you psychologically deal with the presence of emptiness of space?

 

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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