ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-14

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Collège Saint-Anatoile, Salins-Les-Bains, France

April4, 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 CollègeSaint-Anatoile, located in Salins-Les-Bains, France.  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.

Saint Anatoile secondary school is a French private catholicschool located in a rural area in the department of Jura (258,000 population),Burgundy, Franche Comté region. In conjunction with hosting this ARISS contact,the school has developed a 2-year "ARISScontact" project to provide students a real opportunity to discover and understandan environment that is unknown to most of them. The objectives of the projectare to deepen the scientific and linguistic knowledge of the students throughworkshops, and various STEM projects incorporated in their curriculum. All students participated in the project (about 100pupils aged 11 to 14). Supporting this contact are members of the amateur radioclub (F6KSD) and radio amateurs of the AssocitionRéseau des Emetteurs Français (R.E.F.25) who held workshops for students in grades6 and 9. These workshops covered topics that included: an introduction toamateur radio, Morse code, Q code, radio directional-finding, rules ofcommunicating on amateur satellites (using satellite QO-100), orbital mechanics,wave propagation, and much more.

This will be a telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask theirquestions of Astronaut Steve Bowen, amateur radio call sign KI5BKB. 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 Aartselaar, Belgium. The amateurradio volunteer team at the ground station will use the callsign ON4ISS, to establishand maintain the ISS connection.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for April 7, 2023 at 4:27 pm CEST (France) (14:27:26 UTC,10:27 am EDT, 9:27 am CDT, 8:27 am MST,7:27 am PDT).

The public is invitedto watch the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=UCy6st8UemV-88B0PbRlT5sw or the school Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@technofg/streams

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.Can the effects of global warming be seen from the Space Station?

2.Does weightlessness change the way you breathe?

3.Do you plant seeds in order to have vegetables and eat them?

4.Do you still have the notion of time inside the ISS?

5.What did you like the most when you first entered the ISS?

6.Why did you want to become an astronaut?

7.How is it possible to sleep in the space station with weightlessness?

8.Have you discovered anything unusual or strange during your last missions?

9.How can the Space Station supply itself with electricity?

10.How do you feel to be one of the few people to go into space?

11.What do you do with your waste?

12.What do you do if someone gets hurt?

13.What is the interest of weightlessness in your research?

14.What constraints do you encounter when you return to Earth in order to regain anormal life?

15.How long is the air reserve of the spacesuits?

16.How do you cook in space?

17.How did you feel during the take-off of the shuttle?

18.Is it hard to walk when you come back on Earth?

19.What is the best activity you have done in space so far?

20.How do you feel weightlessness now, as you are talking to us?

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, Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) andNASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN). The primary goal ofARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts,and mathematics 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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