ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-05  Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Colegio Diocesano Santa María Nuestra Señora,Écija, Spain

February6, 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 Santa María NuestraSeñora Diocesan School located in Écija, Spain. 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.

Founded in 1935, Santa María Nuestra Señora Diocesan School islocated in the city of Écija (40.000 inhabitants), in the province of Seville(SPAIN) and offers pre-school, primary and secondary education with a studentbody ages 3 to 16 years. The school provides educational innovation in, STEAM,PBL (Project-based learning), programming and robotics. During the three yearsleading up to this ARISS contact, students learned about space explorationthrough hands-on activities that included constructing models of planets in oursolar system, radio communications with members of the URE Seville (Union ofSpanish Radio Amateurs) and completed projects from the European SpaceEducation Resource Office-Spain (ESERO). These activities also showed studentswhat it is like to live and work in the ISS, and included visits to the scienceand technology park to discover how this helps us in our daily live.

This will be a telebridge contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask theirquestions of Astronaut Josh Cassada, amateur radio call sign KI5CRH. The downlinkfrequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners thatare within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the telebridge station.

The ARISS amateur radio ground station(telebridge station) for this contact is in Casale Monferrato, Italy. Theamateur radio volunteer team at the station will use the callsign IK1SLD, toestablish and maintain the ISS connection.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for February 8, 2023 at 11:13:59 am CET (Spain)(10:13:59UTC, 5:13 am EST, 4:13 am CST, 3:13 am MST, 2:13am PST).

Thepublic is invited to watch the live stream at: http://www.ariotti.com/.%C2%A0%C2%A0They are also streamingat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nYFP7qzUtk

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.Is it cold in space?

2.How do astronauts sleep in space?

3.How can data be transmitted from space to Earth in real time?

4.What do you spend your time on? Are you always working on experiments?

5.What happens if you get injured, hurt or sick in the space?  Are there doctors on board?

6.How do astronauts eat and drink without gravity?

7.How do astronauts take a shower and go to the wc?

8.How can you breathe at the international station if there is noatmosphere/oxygen in space?

9.What is your main mission on the International Space Station?

10.How do you protect from orbital debris, or “space junk”?

11.What do astronauts like most about living in space?

12.Do you feel anything special as you go past the atmosphere and you stop feelingthe Earth’s gravity?

13.How do you want or expect your mission to affect society?

14.What is the maximum time to stay on a space station?

15.Do your legs get numb being weightless?

16.Can plants and trees be grown on the space station?

17.How many astronauts can be on the space station?

18.Are unexplained UFO phenomena studied from the ISS?

19.What do you like most about being in space?

20.What kind of training is required to work on the ISS?

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 (SCaN). The primary goal ofARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts,and mathematics 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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