ARISS News Release                                                                                                                                                    No.22-18                DaveJordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Space Hardware Club, Huntsville, Alabama, USA

April4, 2022—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between astronauts aboard theInternational Space Station (ISS) and U.S. students at the Space Hardware Club inHuntsville, Alabama. ARISS conducts 60-80 of these special amateur radiocontacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with hamradio licenses aboard the ISS.

Space Hardware Club (SHC) is a student organization at theUniversity of Alabama (UAH) in Huntsville. Within SHC, students at UAH get thechance to gain hands-on experience with designing, building, and flyingnumerous types of aerospace payloads. The club’s Outreach Program activitiesincludes high- altitude ballooning, payload design, low powered ESTES rockets,and the launching of high-altitude model rockets. SHC will host this ARISScontact for the following rural/suburban public schools: Buckhorn MiddleSchool, Mountain Gap Middle School, New Hope Elementary School, and SparkmanMiddle School. SHC Outreach members have been helping about 800 students fromthese schools to learn more about rocketry, high-altitude ballooning, amateurradio technology, and the research being conducted on the ISS. Leading up tothe ARISS radio contact, SHC outreach members helped the students with hands-onamateur radio activities such as circuit building and antenna construction.

This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions ofAstronaut Thomas Marshburn, amateur radio call sign KE5HOC. Local Covid-19protocols are adhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. The downlinkfrequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners thatare within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relay ground station.

Amateur radio operators in Huntsville, Alabama usingcall sign K4UAH will operate the amateur radio ground station

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for April 7, 2022 at 12:07 pm CDT (Huntsville,AL) (17:07:39 UTC, 1:07 pm EDT, 11:07 am MDT,10:07 am PDT).

Thepublic is invited to watch the live stream at: https://uah-uasystem.zoom.us/j/87179587580

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.How hard was it to adjust your regular activities so you can survive with zerogravity?

2.When you heard you were going to the ISS, were you terrified? Because I know Iwould be.

3.What made you want to go to space? Who inspired you?

4.Is it hard to communicate with astronauts from other countries?

5.What do you think is the most interesting thing you do on the ISS?

6.How well does life (plants, bacteria, fungi) grow in space compared to Earth?

7.What do you believe is in the future of space exploration and is it promisingor not?

8.Is there a type of food you are just absolutely sick of eating because you’vehad it so much?

9.What do you do for fun to pass the time when you aren’t doing experiments?

10.When you go into space do you see everything like planets, asteroids or the MilkyWay?

11.What shocked you the most when you got to space?

12.What is the hardest challenge you have faced while living in space?

13.What was your training like before you got to space and your favorite/leastfavorite part?

14.Do you hydrofarm? If not, could you start one?

15.Do you enjoy it when people from other countries join the ISS?

16.What belongings can you bring up to space with you?

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the InternationalSpace Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radiosocieties and the space agencies that support the International Space Station(ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur SatelliteCorporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS NationalLab-Space Station Explorers, Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) andNASA’s Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISSis to 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 www.ariss.org

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DaveJordan, AA4KN

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