ARISS News Release No. 24-30
DaveJordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
aa4kn@amsat.org
FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Studentsat
Belmont Elementary School, Woodbridge, Virginia,USA
June 1, 2024—AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received scheduleconfirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboard theInternational Space Station (ISS) and students at the Belmont Elementary Schoollocated in Woodbridge, VA. ARISS conducts 60-100 of these specialamateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crewmembers with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.
BelmontElementary is a public-school south of Washington DC with about 500 studentsfrom pre-kindergarten to 5th grade. Inpreparation for this ARISS contact, twelve of their 5th gradestudents are helping with logistical support for this school event. Studentshave been participating in activities that included; how astronauts work inspace during a spacewalk, how microgravity impacts life on the ISS, constructionof straw rockets, and launching a mock Mars lander. Members of the Woodbridge Wireless AmateurRadio Club are supporting the school during this event by conducting Technicianlevel classes for students, and providing hands-on activities relating to basicelectronics and amateur radio.
This will be adirect contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask theirquestions of astronaut Jeanette Epps, amateur radio call sign KF5QNU. Thedownlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard bylisteners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relayground station.
The amateur radio ground station for this contact is in Woodbridge,VA. Amateur radio operators using call sign KM4TAY, will operate the groundstation to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
The ARISS radiocontact is scheduled for June 3, 2024 at 12:03 pm EDT (VA) (16:03 UTC, 11:03 amCDT, 10:03 am MDT, 9:03 am PDT).
Thepublic is invited to watch the live stream at: https://live.ariss.org/
and a possible backup link is https://www.youtube.com/@PWCSNews/streams
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As time allows,students will ask these questions:
1. What happensto sweat in space?
2. Do you everget allergies in space?
3. How do youcommunicate with your family?
4. When youhave free time, what do you do to pass the time?
5. What is yourfavorite thing to do in space?
6. Do you stillhave to learn Russian to be able to travel to the space station?
7. When you’resleeping in space, do you get claustrophobia or uncomfortable?
8. When you arelaunched up into space, does your blood pressure feel like its goes up to yourhead, like on a rollercoaster?
9. Canmicrogravity impact the human body in any harmful ways?
10. If you getmotion sickness, how do you deal with that?
11. How was thechange to life in zero gravity?
12. When youwere a kid, what was your dream job, and did you ever expect to be an astronautin the future?
13. How do youget oxygen in the Space Station?
14. What wouldhappen if you never worked out in space? How badly would your bones hurt?
15. Have youseen any natural disasters on Earth from the ISS?
16. Do you havemedicine for any sickness?
17. Where doyou put the trash?
About ARISS:
Amateur Radioon the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture ofinternational amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support theISS. In the United States, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL),Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur SatelliteCorporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN)and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS isto promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, andmathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts viaamateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before andduring these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities takepart in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, andamateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org.
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ARISS PR
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