ARISS News Release                                                                                               No.24-11

DaveJordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

B. Russell High School, Rome, Italy

February 13,2024—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 B. Russell HighSchool located in Rome, Italy.  ARISSconducts 60-100 of these special amateur radio contacts each year betweenstudents around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard theISS.

TheB. Russell High School curriculum is organized into Classical, Linguistic, andScientific courses with the current school year having 59 classes with a totalof 1395 students. Students study mechanics, thermodynamics, optics, algebra,Cartesian and Euclidean geometry, and probability. In higher grade levels they studyclassical electromagnetism, modern physics, and mathematical analysis. Throughouttheir course of study, students have opportunities to take advanced courses,sometimes in collaboration with universities, including cryptography,astronomy, meteorology and climatology, and electromagnetism. To prepare for this ARISS contact, students have builtcircuits and antennas to study electromagnetic fields (propagation andreception), and collected and analyzed data from weather sensors. Students are alsolearning about astronomy that include practical observational

activitiesusing telescopes. The course in astronomy covers the main topics of modernastronomy and astrophysics, from the formation of the Solar System, to theoriesof stellar evolution. Prior to the ARISS contact, students have also beenlearning about the ISS and space exploration. Members of the Italian AmateurRadio Association (ARI) section of Rome, are also providing technical trainingto the students, and are responsible for this direct ARISS contact event.

This will be adirect contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask theirquestions of astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, amateur radio call sign KI5WSL. 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 Rome,Italy. Amateur radio operators using call sign IKØUSO, will operate the groundstation to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

The ARISS radiocontact is scheduled for February 15, 2024 at 12:32 pm CET (Italy) (11:32 UTC, 6:32 am EST, 5:32 am CST, 4:32 am MST, 3:32am PST).

The public isinvited to watch the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YEgMvzbn8

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As time allows,students will ask these questions:

1. Whatprogress has been made in research on plants in space and what impact could ithave on future extraterrestrial cultivation?

2. In yourexperiments, are you doing any research which has to do with new solutions toclimate change?

3. How willartificial intelligence influence the life and research of astronauts?

4. In simpleterms, can you explain what the PROMETEO II project is about?

5. Whattechnological challenges do you think are crucial to overcome in order to makepresence in space more sustainable and comfortable in the long term?

6. You arecarrying out studies on the cardiovascular system. Could the results obtainedbe applied, for example, in the development of new aeronautical technologies?

7. If a persongets sick while being in a closed space, what can be done to avoid the passageof viruses and apply the consequent treatment?

8. How does theperception of time and space change during a prolonged space mission?

9. How do youdeal whit long-term physical changes, such as loss of bone density while inspace?

10. What arethe physical tests that an astronaut must pass?

11. What isstandard procedure in the case of fire?

12. In theevent of a breakdown in the carbon dioxide disposal machinery what should theastronauts do? (Hoping it never happens)

13. Howimportant is the collaboration between all astronauts to achieve the requiredobjectives?

14. What is theimpact experienced by the body caused by the absence of gravity?

15. Do youfollow a specific diet before going into space?

16. How doesphysical activity play a vital role for astronauts inside the space station?

17. What is thepurpose of future space exploration?

18. What kindof biological experiments do you have to carry out on board?

19. How can wekeep up a hypothetical supply chain for future colonies and bases on Mars andon the moon? (Is it possible, perhaps, to develop a system for a completeself-sufficiency)

20. Whatstudies must one complete to become an astronaut?

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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