ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.21-51

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students from France at

Lycée Pierre Paul Riquet in St Orens De Gameville

and CSUT University Space Center of Toulouse

September30, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is thegroup that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students aroundthe globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio between the ISS and students inFrance at Lycée Pierre Paul Riquet in St Orens DeGameville and CSUT University Space Center of Toulouse. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISS Astronaut ThomasPesquet, amateur radio call sign KG5FYG, during the ARISS radio contact. Appropriatelocal Covid-19 protocols are adhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprintthat also encompasses the ARISS radio telebridge station.

The ARISS team in Casale Monferrato, Italy willuse call sign IK1SLD to serve as the ARISS relay amateur radio ground station.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 2, 2021 at 2:40 pm CEST (Toulouse,France) (12:40 UTC, 8:40 am EDT, 7:40 am CDT,6:40 am MDT, 5:40 am PDT).

LycéePierre-Paul Riquet (1,500 students, age 15 – 18 years) is a general andtechnological high school providing scientific, economic, literary ortechnological baccalaureates. The school also provides students space-relatedcourses that are applicable to a career in aerospace industry. Their STEMcurricula have incorporated radio science, satellite orbital mechanics, andradio receiver construction in preparation for the ARISS contact, and thehistory of ham radio communications in space. The high school students havealso been working with the University Space Center of Toulouse (CSUT) andmembers of the amateur radio club of the University (F4KLD) in preparation forthis contact. The ham radio club members worked with students on severalactivities that included: radio reception using an SDR dongle; radio receptionof amateur satellites or weather satellites; fox hunting; ISS-tracking visuallyand using APRS.

TheUniversity Space Centre of Toulouse (CSUT) was created in 2016 and its purposeis to develop collaborative small-scale (CubeSats) space system projects and bringtogether academic people and researchers and higher education students. Morethan 50 students from the University’s Master Degree of Electronic are directlyinvolved in the ARISS contact and have worked with the 100 high school studentsfrom Lycée Pierre Paul Riquet also directly involved around this contact.

Viewthe live stream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgl8lELDcgA

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.  Si vous retourniez en enfance, qu'est-ce quevous auriez aimé voir comme mise en scè ne du spatial dans la culture pop?

2.  Concevez-vous le métier de spationaute commeplus difficile pour les femmes, dans la mesure où les femmes sont bien moinsprésentes que leurs homologues masculins dans la conquête spatiale?

3.  Quel est votre ressenti vis à vis descontraintes pour communiquer avec vos proches?

4.  Qu'est-ce qui vous pousse à aller dansl'espace malgré les problèmes que cela pourrait causer sur votre santé?

5.  S’il y a une catastrophe naturelle et qu’elleperturbe les communications de l’ISS avec la Terre, comment vous ensortez-vous?

6.  Nous avons entendu dire que, avant de dormir,vous voyez des flashs bleus causés par les radiations spatiales, est-ce vrai?

7.  L'expérience éducative TETRISS des étudiantsde l'IUT de Toulouse doit permettre de visualiser des ondes en 3D. Avez-vousdéjà réalisé une expérience comme celle-ci?

8.  Un étudiant sourd a participé audéveloppement de l'expérience TETRIS. Quel message voudriez-vous passer auxmalentendants passionnés par l’Espace?

9.  Nous aimerions savoir si, comme dans le filmSergio and Sergei, vous avez déjà capté, dans l’ISS, par erreur des signaux deradioamateurs venant de la Terre?

10.  Pour la préparation de votre mission, est cevous avez dû mettre entre parenthèse votre vie de famille, est ce que c’estcompliqué de la maintenir?

11.  Est-ce que vous avez hésité et est-ce que çavous faisait peur de partir dans l’espace?

12.  Comment vivez-vous le fait d’être aussi loinde la Terre?

13.  Lors de vos différentes missions dansl'espace, avez-vous constaté une évolution de la déforestation sur Terre?

14.  Quelles sont les qualités qui vous ont permisd'être recruté par l'ESA et de devenir spationaute?

15.  Si un jour vous avez l’opportunité d’allersur la Lune, quelle serait votre première pensée lors de votre premier pas surle sol lunaire?

16.  Durant cette mission, appréhendez-vous d'êtrele commandant de bord de l’ISS?

17.  Au-delà du métier de spationaute, avez-vousencore des rêves?

18.  Ressentez-vous des effets du vent solairedans l’espace?

19.  Entendez-vous les sons comme sur la Terre?

20.  Aviez vous un modèle qui vous a motivé àdevenir spationaute?

Translation

1.  If youhad to go back to when you were a kid, what sorts of representations of spacewould you like to see in pop culture?

2.  Do youconsider the job of astronaut more difficult for women, knowing that there areless women than men in the space domain?

3.  How doyou feel about the constraints of communicating with your loved ones?

4.  Whatdrives you to go to space despite the health problems it could cause?

5.  Ifthere is a natural disaster which disturbs the communications between the ISSand the Earth, what will happen for you?

6.  Weheard that before sleeping you see blue flashes because of space radiations, isthat true?

7.  TheTETRISS educational experiment of the students from the University TechnologyInstitute of Toulouse should make it possible to visualize waves in 3D. Haveyou ever conducted an experiment like this?

8.  A deafstudent has taken part in the development of the TETRIS experiment. Whatmessage would you like to deliver to hearing-impaired people who areenthusiastic about Space?

9.  We'dlike to know if, as in the film Sergio and Sergei, you've already mistakenlyreceived amateur radio signals from Earth in the ISS?

10. When preparing for your mission, did youhave to put your family life on hold, and is it complicated to maintain it?

11. Did you hesitate and were you scared ofgoing to space?

12. How do you live the fact of being so farfrom Earth?

13. During your missions in space, have younoticed an evolution of deforestation on Earth?

14. What are the qualities required to be anastronaut and be hired by the ESA?

15. If one day you have the opportunity to go tothe Moon, what will be your first thought for your first step on the lunarsoil?

16. For this mission, are you apprehensive aboutbeing the ISS captain?

17. Beyond being an astronaut, do you still havedreams

18. Do you feel the effects of solar flare inspace?

19. Can you hear sounds the same as on Earth?

20. Do you have a model that inspired you forthis job?

ARISS– Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur Radio Continuous Operations 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, 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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