ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.   21-46

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled for Studentsat

Carl Fuhlrott-Gymnasium, Wuppertal, Germany

August19, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received scheduleconfirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the groupthat puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around theglobe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between students at the CarlFuhlrott-Gymnasium, and Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, amateur radio call sign KE5DNI. Students will take turns asking their questions. Appropriate local Covid-19 protocols areadhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. Thedownlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard bylisteners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the radio relayground station.

Amateur radio operators, using the call sign DN1CFGwill operate the ham radio ground station for this contact.

The ARISS radio contact isscheduled for August 23, 2021 at 9:54:53 am CEST (Wuppertal, DE), (7:54 UTC, 3:54am EDT, 2:54 am CDT, 1:54 am MDT and 12:54 am PDT).

Carl-Fuhlrott-Gymnasium(CFG) (with students ages 10-19 years), provides curricula leading to theA-levels (“Abitur”), an exam which entitles their students to study any subjectat any university. CFG is a certified EuropeanSchool and also certified as a MINT (STEM equivalent) excellence center. Their MINT/STEMcurriculum includes courses in Astronomy and collaborates with BergischeUniversität to provide astronomy training for students and teachers. Students’extracurricular activities include using the school’s onsite astronomical observatorythat has six telescopes (Celestron C11) and one Planewave CDK20. Amateur radiois also part of student activities with an onsite amateur radio station andplanned activities that would involve studies in radio astronomy, and software definedradio. Students have participated in the launching and radio tracking of a high-altitudeballoon flight and have used that experience to prepare for this ARISS contact.

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1. How do you like being in space and what do you do all day?

2. How do you brush your teeth up there? Can you take a shower?

3. Do you live sustainably on the ISS?

4. What do you do in your free time? I hope you have some at all.

5. Do astronauts have privacy? How do you manage living with so manyastronauts in a confined space?

6. Does zero gravity and the remoteness of the station have any effects onyour psyche?

7. Are there any implicit rules among the astronauts and cosmonauts on theISS?

8. Did you take any personal items with you to remind you of yourexpedition?

9. Where does the oxygen on the ISS come from? Is the photobioreactorexperiment using algae still working and which usage could it have?

10. How does an EVA-activity feel?

11. Have you ever experienced/seenanything that you could not explain scientifically?

12. At our observatory, we have observed several exoplanets with thetransition method. Do you also have experiments on sky observation on the ISS?Maybe even exoplanets?

13. How optimistic are you while searching for black matter?

14. How does zero gravity influence muscle building and muscle loss duringand after your mission? Could you help influence this with muscle buildingdrugs?

15. Sufficient sleep forms the basis for an effective muscle build-up. Is ittherefore necessary to prepare yourselves for sleeping in the Space station ordo you need to get used to the conditions first

to get a restful sleep?

16. What do you think of private companies building rockets for manned spaceflight instead of the national space agencies?

17. Do you think it will be possible to live on Mars or on other planetsuntil 2050, as Elon Musk plans to?

18. Is CIMON-2 still with you on the ISS? What would you like a robotcompanion do for you?

19. What are the advantages of cancer research in space? Are there alreadyany benefits for patients on Earth?

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ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Continuous Amateur Radio Operations onthe 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, and NASA’s Space communications and Navigationprogram. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science,technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this byorganizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard theISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators,parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied tospace, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.

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