ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-60

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

New Heights School & Learning Services,Calgary, Alberta, Canada

November14, 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 New Heights School& Learning Services in Calgary, CAN. 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.

New Heights School is a private school for autistic andneurodivergent students, serving 123 students, grade levels ranging fromKindergarten to Grade 12. The school has small class sizes of 10 or 11 studentswith about two teaching staff in each class and therapists throughout theschool. Leading up to this ARISS contact the school has involved all studentsin a “Life in Space” themed science month. Each classroom focused on one uniqueproject, which integrated subjects that included; Sky Science, Space

Exploration, and Electromagnetic Energy. Students were able to demonstratetheir learning through research projects, creating posters, creating websites, creativewriting activities and public speaking.

This will be a telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask theirquestions of Astronaut Andreas Mogensen, amateur radio call sign KG5GCZ. Thedownlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard bylisteners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses thetelebridge 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 November 17, 2023 at 10:06:45 am MST (Alberta,CAN) (17:06:45 UTC, 12:06 pm EST, 11:06 amCST, 9:06 am PST).

Thepublic is invited to watch the live stream at: Watch for possibleLivestream www.ariotti.com starting15min before AOS.

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.What was it like exiting Earth and boarding the ISS?

2.How do you sleep?

3.What is the scariest thing that has happened in space?

4.When was the last time you were on Earth?

5.What kind of food do you eat in space?

6.What kind of experiments do you perform?

7.What is the strangest thing you have seen in space?

8.How do you go outside of the ISS without floating away?

9.How much power does the ISS use every day?

10.What is the longest spacewalk you have done?

11.Has any space junk threatened the structural state of the ISS?

12.How do you dispose of garbage on the ISS?

13.Do you exercise?

14.How old do you have to be to go to space?

15.Can you watch videos or play online games on the ISS, or can you only enjoyboard games while on board?

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 American Radio Relay League(ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur SatelliteCorporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN)and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS isto promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, andmathematics 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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