ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-61

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Schule Eutin, Eutin,Germany, and Gymnasium im Loekamp, Marl, Germany

December1, 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 two schools located in Germany.  ARISS conducts 60-80 of these special amateurradio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew memberswith ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.

The Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Schule (CMVW) is a high school locatedin the heart of the city of Eutin, in the northern German state ofSchleswig-Holstein. CMVW offers a STEM curriculum from grade 5 to graduation,which is supplemented through extracurricular activities and projects. For thisARISS contact, members of Amateur Radio Association Eutin, are providing radioequipment and technical expertise.

The Gymnasium im Loekamp has about 800 students in classes fromgrade 5 up to level Q2 (grade 13) and 75 teachers. It is a full-time municipalschool located in Marl, at the north rim of the Ruhr area in Germany, and about260 miles southwest of Eutin. They also offer computer science as a compulsorysubject for students in grades 5 and 6, as an elective from grades 7 to 13. Their'Junior Engineering Academy' is a technical elective in grades 9 and 10 with additionalSTEM working groups that includes robotics and programming.

This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students from both schools 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 the relayground station.

The amateur radio ground station for this contactis in Eutin, Germany. Amateur radio operators using call sign DKØOH, willoperate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection andprovide a telebridge contact with students at Gymnasium im Loekamp.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for December 4, 2023 at 12:36 pm CET (GER) (11:36UTC, 6:36 am EST, 5:36 am CST, 4:36 am MST,3:36 am PST).

The public is invitedto watch the livestream at: https://youtu.be/il4hZ40lO_o

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.What exciting experience fascinated you the most during your stay on the ISS?

2.Could you highlight a discovery that have already emerged through researchconducted on the ISS?

3.We have a school project where we launch a weather balloon. Can you see aweather balloon at 40km altitude from the ISS?

4.Do you conduct experiments in space from the ISS and if so, what was the mostexciting experiment?

5.Is there any muscle degradation due to weightlessness in space, and if so, whatare the symptoms and countermeasures?

6.How do astronauts treat illnesses or medical emergencies while they are inspace?

7.Is the time different in space than on Earth?

8.Does your voice change due to weightlessness or muscle loss when you stay onthe ISS?

9.How do astronauts spend their free time in space?

10.How would you describe the dynamics and relationships among astronauts aboardthe ISS, and did you know your colleagues before the mission?

11.What do you miss most from Earth in space and what will you miss most from theISS on Earth?

12.How do you feel when you look out of the window to the earth and think of yourfamily living there?

13.How have your expectations regarding your work on the ISS changed compared toyour initial thought?

14.What are the main differences between training underwater and actually livingin space, even though both conditions are weightless?

15.Don't you miss just sitting down there and does the weightlessness get annoyingsometimes?

16.What is your biggest fear during a mission?

17.How is the food packaged on the ISS, and does it taste different than on Earth?

18.How is air quality maintained inside the space station?

19.How is water filtered from urine in the space toilet?

20.Do you believe in the existence of aliens?

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, and mathematicstopics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radiobetween crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radiocontacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-onlearning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. Formore information, see http://www.ariss.org

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