ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-18

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Agrupamento de Escolas João de Barros, Corroios, Portugal, AND Escola Secundária daBaixa da Banheira, Moita, Portugal

April20, 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 educationalfacilities located in Corroios and Moita, Portugal.  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.

Agrupamento de Escolas João de Barros (AEJB), established in2013, is located in Corroios, Seixal and consists of five schools frompre-school to secondary education with an enrollment of 2,458. AEJB offers coursesin the areas of: Science and Technology, Socioeconomic Sciences, Visual Arts/ArtsWorkshop, Languages and Humanities. AEFJ also offers two professional coursesin the field of computer technologies.

Secondary School of Baixa da Banheira is a public, VocationalEducation and Training school (VET) (with about 1600 enrolled) locatedin Moita, near the capital city of Lisbon. Their VET curriculum includes: IT,Sports, Cooking and Catering, Logistics, Tourism and Pharmacy Techniciancourses. The school offers a "Centro Qualifica" for adults who alsohave multinational backgrounds.

Ham radio operator members of the Amateur Radio Association inPortugal (REP) are supporting this ARISS contact with the necessary radioequipment, radio operation and ISS tracking.

This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions ofAstronaut Steve Bowen, amateur radio call sign KI5BKB. The downlink frequencyfor this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard by listeners that are withinthe ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relay ground station.

The amateur radio ground station for this contactis in Moita, Portugal. Amateur radio operators using call sign CS5SS, willoperate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for April 22, 2023 at 1:06:44 pm WEST (Portugal)(12:06:44 UTC, 8:06 am EDT, 7:06 am CDT,6:06 am MDT, 5:06 am PDT).

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As time allows, students will ask thesequestions:

1.  Why did you decide to become an astronaut?

2.  What does it take to be an astronaut.?

3.  What is your daily routine like? /How do youshare tasks?

4.  Is your digestion affected by the absence ofgravity?

5.  How do you communicate with your families?

6.  What are the effects that happen to anastronaut who has been in space for a long period of time when they arrive backto Earth?

7.  How long does each mission take?

8.  Is your blood circulation affected by thechange in gravity?

9.  What does the inside of the ISS looklike?

10.  Was it difficult to get used to living there?

11.  Do you recycle your waste?

12.  How does the space station keep orbiting theEarth?

13.  What projects are you currently developing?

14.  If one of you gets ill, what do you do?

15.  What was the most amazing thing you have everseen in space?

16.  How do you spend your free time?

17.  What are the changes that you can seehappening due to climate changes?

18.  What do you fear the most up there?

19.  Do you consider yourselves as heroes?

20.  If you get emotional and cry what happens toyour tears?

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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