ARISS News Release                                                                                           No.24-22

DaveJordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Mountain View Elementary, Marietta, Georgia, USA

April 15, 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 Mountain View Elementary locatedin Marietta, GA.  ARISS conducts 60-100of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around theglobe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.

MountainView Elementary School is a K-5 public school that serves over 830 students.Students have been involved in many cross-curricular projects and activitiesthat included: achieved World Space Week Champions after designing aself-sustaining space settlement, designed several mission patches, worked withbluShift Aerospace on a hot/cold engine test, worked with MaxIQ Space on aSuborbital Launch Test in conjunction with the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal inSouth Africa. The school also has an annual schoolwide water rocket contestcalled Launchapalooza. Students have worked with Citizen Science on the MonarchButterfly Migration, designed a dog prosthetic for a dog name Lyla and havedesigned dog park equipment for special needs dogs. This year, students havealso utilized ARISS SPARKI kits, the GeoChron system, learned about aquanaut training,participated in an amateur radio directional finding (fox hunt) event oncampus, and have learned how Cube Satellites work. In preparation of the ARISScontact, students have tracked the ISS during ARISS/SSTV broadcasts resultingin them decoding seven images. The school is supported by the Cherokee AmateurRadio Society, North Fulton Amateur Radio League, Cobb County Library System,bluShift Aerospace, and Cobb EMC.

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 Marietta,Georgia. Amateur radio operators using call sign KQ4JVI, will operate theground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

The ARISS radiocontact is scheduled for April 18, 2024 at 1:48:40 pm EDT (GA) (17:48:40 UTC, 12:48pm CDT, 11:48 am MDT, 10:48 am PDT).

The public isinvited to watch the live stream at: https://youtube.com/live/lDjyV6P9x6I

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As time allows,students will ask these questions:

1. Since thingsfloat, is there physical friction in space?

2. What is theworst emergency to have on the ISS and what do you do?

3. Does zerogravity affect how your body processes food?

4. If you brokea bone in space, would you heal the same as you would on Earth?

5. Do you feelanxious thinking about returning to your home since time creates change?

6. What is themost high-tech item on the ISS not well-known by others?

7. What's thebiggest problem about the ISS?

8. On the ISS,does the crew have full access or are there areas that are off limits?

9. Have youever had to borrow parts from one item to fix a different item on the ISS?

10. If you weregiven the option to live on the ISS permanently, what would your reaction beand would you accept?

11. From yourunique view in space, are there noticeable patterns that show how greenhousegases might be impacting our planet?

12. Which is abetter feeling: getting to space or living in space?

13. Are youyour own doctor if you get sick?

14. When yousweat on the ISS from exercise, does the sweat fall off you like it does onEarth?

15. What kindof experiments do you choose to work on, and why?

16. How did itfeel when you left the Earth’s gravitational pull?

17. Do you userobots on the ISS and what do they do?

18. Have younoticed an immediate change in your body after being in space?

19. Besidesexercise, eat, play, and rest, are there any other things you need to do foryour body while living in space?

20. How do youget dressed in space without floating away?

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) isa cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the spaceagencies that support the ISS. In the United States, sponsors are the AmericanRadio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), RadioAmateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications andNavigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. Theprimary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology,engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizingscheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS andstudents. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents,and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, spacetechnologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org

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