An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada on 27 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 20:18 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time.The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK6MJ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English and French.
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Walter Murray Collegiate is in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Along with its many standard course, it has some excellent engineering/ electronics courses and a very extensive hands-on "shop" class which involves machinery, welding, carpentry, car repair etc. There is also very busy "tech" club that is involved in robotics as well as a "science" club that this year was very excited about the "Tomatosphere" project.
Contact day with David will be very busy. We will, have on site, the University of Saskatchewan engineering faculty represented by USST, the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team. USST will be demonstrating 2 of their projects that day. One team will represent and demonstrate CubeSatÕs and the other team will engage all the students with the Rover project. As well RASC Saskatoon will be there will solar scopes and will be in the auditorium with demonstration telescopes. As well ARISS/ SARC will have their amateur radio equipment for all the students.
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. How do relations between countries on Earth impact relationships between
astronauts of different nationalities?
2. What did you bring with you to space?
3. What are your next goals after you return to Earth?
4. As technology develops and it becomes safer and more economically
efficient to send unmanned flights to space, what argument would you give
in favour of continued investment in manned space flight?
5. Combien de force ressentiez-vous lorsque vous quittez l'atmosphère et
échappez l'attraction gravitationnelle de la Terre? Translation: How much
force do you feel when you are leaving the atmosphere and escaping the
gravitational pull of Earth?
6. What do you think is the most interesting experiment you are working on
currently on the ISS and why is it important?
7. Why do you think space travel is important in an age where problems like
climate change exist?
8. With climate change growing on Earth, do you think the rate of space
debris will cause a problem in the future? If so, what could be done about
it?
9. How can people not interested in actually going to space help support
Canadian space programs? Is there anything random civilians, high school
students, etc. can do to help explore the galaxy?
10. Should we be considering the legal and economic impact of colonizing Mars
or is it too early to consider at this time?
11. What do you think is the future of space exploration? Do you have ideas
of what it might look like?
12. In space, you have to be very careful with the resources you are offered.
How can you apply this to being more eco-friendly on Earth?
13. What is the most memorable view you remember seeing when you were
traveling to, or actually at, the ISS?
14. What's something that you never realized until going into space?
15. Are the computers and parts of the ISS still from when it was sent into
space or were they upgraded?
16. I know you have changed career paths a lot. What was the most valuable
thing you learned while finding your passion as an astronaut?
17. What utensils are used to write in space? Can you use pens and pencils?
If not, what do you use?
18. Do you think more resources should be spent on saving Earth or leaving
it?
19. How has going into space and the experience of observing the universe
from such a surreal perspective contributed to your opinion on the
existence of life in other places?
20. Is medicine different in space? If so, how?
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Next planned event(s):
1. Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko
Contact is go for: Sun 2019-05-26 15:55 UTC
2. Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Los Suenos, Costa Rica,
telebridge via IK1SLD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI
Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 16:31:25 UTC 34 deg
Starting about 15 minutes before AOS, watch for a live stream at
www.ariotti.com
3. Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada, telebridge via ON4ISS
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS
The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI
Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 19:44:22 UTC 81 deg
4. Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin
Contact is a go for Wed 2019-06-05 07:50 UTC
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 and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. 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.
Thank you & 73,
David - AA4KN
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