ARISS News Release                                                                                               No.24-31

DaveJordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Serafim Leite, São João da Madeira, Portugal

June 4, 2024—AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received scheduleconfirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboard theInternational Space Station (ISS) and students at the Agrupamento de EscolasDr. Serafim Leite located in São João da Madeira, Portugal.  ARISS conducts 60-100 of these specialamateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crewmembers with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.

Agrupamentode Escolas Dr. Serafim Leite has more than 800 students, aged 6 through 18years. All levels of students are involved in the preparation of this ARISScontact. Prior to this contact, the class curricular included material relatedto the study of space, communication, and technology that focus on “ClimaticEmergency”. School clubs (Programming and Robotics and Astronomy) have includedactivities that demonstrated tracking of the ISS and observation of nearby starsand planets. Local amateur radio operators are supporting the school duringthis contact.

This will be adirect contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask theirquestions of astronaut Matthew Dominick, amateur radio call sign KCØTOR. 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 contact is in SãoJoão da Madeira. Amateur radio operators using call sign CS2ASL, will operate theground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

The ARISS radiocontact is scheduled for June 6, 2024 at 11:33:44 am WEST (Portugal) (10:33:44 UTC,6:33 am EDT, 5:33 am CDT, 4:33 am MDT, 3:33am PDT).

The public isinvited to watch the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/live/15Na--NoW1Y

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As time allows,students will ask these questions:

1. How manyhours of exercise should an astronaut do each day?

2. Do you haveany specific type of food when you are on mission?

3. How long doastronauts train to be able to go on space missions?

4. Whom andwhat do you miss most?

5. Tell usabout your adventure in space.

6. What recentadvances in space exploration do you believe have a significant impact onfuture space exploration and/or in society in general?

7.  At what speed does ISS move? And how manyorbits do you manage to conclude in 24 hours?

8. What are themost challenging scientific goals that space missions are trying to achieve?

9. What madeyou become astronauts?

10. Whatfeeling do you have when travelling into space?

11. What doesit feel like to gravitate?

12. What isyour daily routine like?

13. Whateffects does space have on the human body and how do you control them?

14. When youhave a health problem, what do you do?

15. How manyG-forces do you experience on the liftoff and landing and how does it feel?

16. Can youdeal well with the little contact you have with the social world on Earth?

17. In case youhave to get outside the international space station, how long do the suits haveoxygen autonomy?

18. How do youfeel having a job that millions of kids wish to have in their future?

19. Do you haveany free time? If so, what do you do?

20. What is themost beautiful thing you’ve seen in space?

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) isa cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the spaceagencies that support the ISS. In the United States, sponsors are the AmericanRadio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), RadioAmateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications andNavigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. Theprimary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology,engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizingscheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS andstudents. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents,and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, spacetechnologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org

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