ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-67

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

Six US Schools Moved Forward inARISS Selection Process

December27, 2023: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is pleasedto announce the schools/host organizations selected for the July-December 2024 window.A total of 6 of the submitted proposals during the recent proposal window havebeen accepted to move forward in the processes of planning to host a scheduledamateur radio contact with crew on the ISS. The primary goal of the ARISSprogram is to engage young people in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts andMath (STEAM) activities and raise their awareness of space communications,radio communications, space exploration, and related areas of study and careerpossibilities.

TheARISS program anticipates that NASA will be able to provide schedulingopportunities for the 6 US host organizations during the July-December 2024 timeperiod. They are now at work completing an acceptable equipment plan thatdemonstrates their ability to execute the ham radio contact. Once theirequipment plan is approved by ARISS, the final selected schools/organizationswill be scheduled as their availability and flexibility match up with thescheduling opportunities offered by NASA.

Theschools and host organizations are:

| Coastal Community School

| Satellite Beach, FL

| | Computer Museum of America

| Roswell, GA

| | Kopernik Observatory

| Vestal, NY

| | Immaculate Heart of Mary School

| Wayne, NJ

| | Magnet Innovation Center

| Inlet Beach, FL

| | Midlands STEM Charter School

| Winnsboro, SC

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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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