ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-53

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Sekolah Kebangsaan Wangsa Maju Seksyen 2, KualaLumpur, Malaysia

October10, 2023—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboardthe International Space Station (ISS) and students at the Sekolah KebangsaanWangsa Maju Seksyen 2 in Kuala Lumpur. ARISS conducts 60-80 of these special amateur radio contacts each yearbetween students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboardthe ISS.

Sekolah Kebangsaan Wangsa Maju Seksyen 2 is a national schoollocated at Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It has a total of 44 teachersand 468 students ages 7 to 12 years. This school has an Integrated SpecialEducation Program in addition to its mainstream education syllabus and is alsoa school under the School Transformation Programme 2025 (TS25). This ARISScontact coincides with their National Space Challenge 2023, an annual eventinstituted in 2007, the year the first Malaysian went to the ISS.

This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions ofAstronaut Andreas Mogensen, amateur radio call sign KG5GCZ. 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.

The amateur radio ground station for this contactis in Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Amateur radio operators using callsign 9M2RPN, will operate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISSconnection.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 11, 2023 at 7:12:42 pm MYT (Malaysia)(11:12:42 UTC, 7:12 am EDT, 6:12 am CDT,5:12 am MDT, 4:12 am PDT).

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Live streaming of the contact can be viewed at https://facebook.com/events/s/live-communication-iss-2023-9m/657588939506503... and  https://www.youtube.com/live/YLMFcozC-2o?feature=shared

Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.Do you feel dizzy when you’re floating a lot?

2.How do you feel when you launch to space?

3.What are some of the experiments you do in ISS?

4.What time do you sleep in the ISS?

5.How do you keep fit up there?

6.What was the best food you ate in ISS?

7.Do you bring pets or toys to space?

8.How many sunrises and sunsets do you experience up there?

9.How long have you been in ISS?

10.How long does it take to travel from earth to ISS?

11.How do you keep entertaining yourself up there?

12.Doyou notice any alien spaceship up there?

13.How to become an astronaut like you?

14.What was the best advice for students if they want to become an astronaut?

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 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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