ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.   21-64

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISS Contact is Scheduled for Students at

Notre Dame Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School, Kyoto, Japan

December 7, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between students in Kyoto, Japan, and Astronaut Raja Chari, amateur radio call sign KI5LIU. Students will take turns asking their questions. Local Covid-19 protocols are adhered to as applicable for each ARISS contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the radio relay ground station.

Amateur radio operators in Kyoto, Japan, using the 8N3ND call sign, will operate the ham radio ground station for this contact.

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for December 9, 2021 at 5:33 pm JST (Kyoto, Japan), (8:33 UTC, 3:33 am EST, 2:33 am CST, 1:33 am MST and 12:33 am PST).

Notre Dame Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School was established for women in 1952. The school’s programs leading up to this contact have incorporated studies of amateur radio, the ISS, living in space, space exploration, and earth sciences. Other student activities involved experiments in electronics related to space, space food, and learning about the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. To publicize the ARISS contact to other youth, students provided illustrations for an information booth during the Tachibana school festival.

The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://youtu.be/9q7szmwEz4o

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As time allows, students will ask these questions (Translation):

1. When did you decide to become an astronaut?

2. Was your mission impacted by COVID-19 restrictions? What measures were taken to stay safe and healthy?

3. How many pieces of luggage can you usually bring from the earth? Also, what did you bring this time?

4. How do you move from a spacecraft or rocket to the ISS?

5. What is the best thing about being in space?

6. What was the most dangerous thing you experienced?

7. What do you do if you get ill?

8. What do you want to do after you come back to earth?

9. How did you learn English?

10. How do you maintain levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the ISS?

11. What made you want to become an astronaut?

12. What did you think when you first experienced weightlessness?

13. At what altitude are you flying?

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ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Continuous Amateur Radio Operations on the ISS

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.

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Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

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