ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.21-39

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students in France at

Collège Albert Camus in La Norville andUniversité Paris-Saclay in Saint-Aubin

June15, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is thegroup that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students aroundthe globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio between the ISS and students fromthese two schools. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISSAstronaut Thomas Pesquet, amateur radio call sign KG5FYG. French is thelanguage expected to be used during the contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ andmay be heard by listeners who are within the ISS-footprint that alsoencompasses the ARISS radio telebridge station.

ARISS team member Jan Poppeliers in Aartselaar,Belgium using radio call sign ON4ISS, will serve as the ARISS relay amateurradio station. Each student asking a question on the ARISS radio will be conferenced in from home or social-distanced at school.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for June 17, 2021 at 1:40 pm CEST (LaNorville, France) (11:40 UTC, 7:40 am EDT, 6:40am CDT, 5:40 am MDT, 4:40 am PDT).

Coursepreparations and learning activities prior to this ARISS contact have been a combinedeffort between two schools: Collège Albert Camus (Middle School) and UniversitéParis-Saclay; and members of the amateur radio club of Viry-Châtillon (F5KEE).

CollègeAlbert Camus (about 300 students ages 11-15) is in La Norville in a rural area,about 40 km south of Paris.  The schoolprovides students a classical STEM French curriculum with additionalcourses/activities focused on space-related sciences.

UniversitéParis-Saclay, in the Orsay/Gif/Saclay area offers Bachelor, Master andDoctorate programs, including mathematics, physics, medicine, and agriculture. TheUniversity internal colleges offer programs in science and engineering, lifesciences and health, social sciences and humanities. Its 275 labs shared withCEA, CNRS, ONERA (French research labs) involve 48,000 students, 9,000 teachersand teacher-researchers, and 11,000 technical and administrative staff.

Membersof the amateur radio club of Viry-Châtillon offer students instruction on radiocommunication—activities/workshops on radio theory/practice, intro to Morsecode, antenna-building, fox-hunting, radio receiver building, and amateur radioregulations. The club will support the school during the contact.

Viewthe live stream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04k4RGNxlgU&list=TLPQMTUwNjIwMjGIS3GJchf...

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.Avez-vous ressenti au second décollage les mêmes émotions qu’au premier?

2.A votre retour dans l’ISS avez-vous retrouvé vos réflexes?

3.Qu’est-ce que vous trouvez compliqué en apesanteur?

4.Quelle est l’influence de l’apesanteur sur les 5 sens?

5.Dans l’Espace rêve-t-on qu’on est en apesanteur?

6.Quelles sortes d’expériences réalisez-vous dans l’ISS?

7.Quelles responsabilités aurez-vous en tant que commandant de bord?

8.Qu’est ce qui est le plus important pour vous derrière le nom de votre missionALPHA?

9.Faites-vous des choses différemment lors de votre 2eme mission?

10.Quand on est en sortie extra véhiculaire, est-ce qu’on pense à l’Espace autourde soi?

11.Appréciez-vous de la même manière les plats de Thierry Marx et Raphaël Haumontqui ont été préparés pour vous dans l’Espace?

12.Qu’est-ce qui vous émerveille le plus dans l’Espace?

13.Quel principal conseil pouvez-vous donner à la future sélection desastronautes?

14.Quelle influence espérez-vous avoir sur la jeunesse?

15.Vu de l’espace, qu'observez-vous de la présence de l’Homme et de ses dégâts?

16.Pensez-vous que l'on pourra trouver les moyens d'une alimentation durable lorsd'un long voyage spatial, par exemple avec des micro-algues?

17.En quoi votre expérience sur l'ISS permet de préparer les prochaines missionsvers Mars?

18.Quelles compétences de votre formation vous sont utiles aujourd’hui pourcommander cette mission?

19.Comment gérez-vous psychologiquement la présence du vide?

Translation

1.Did you feel the same emotions on the second launch as you did on the firstone?

2.When you returned to the ISS, did you get back into your old habits?

3.What do you find complicated in zero gravity?

4.What is the influence of weightlessness onto the five senses?

5.In space, do we dream that we are weightless?

6.What kind of experiments do you perform on the ISS?

7.What responsibilities will you have as the ISS captain?

8.What is the most important thing for you behind the name of the mission ALPHA?

9.Are you doing things any differently on your second mission?

10.When you're on an EVA, do you think about the space all around you?

11.Do you enjoy Thierry Marx’s and Raphaël Haumont’s dishes as much in space asyou do on the ground?

12.What amazes you most about Space?

13.What advice would you give to the future selection of astronauts?

14.What influence do you hope to have on the younger generation?

15.As seen from space, what can you make of the presence of humankind and itsdamage?

16.Do you think we will be able to find a type of sustainable food which could begrown or cultivated during a long space trip, such as micro-algae?

17.How does your experience on the ISS help prepare for future crewed missions toMars?

18.What skills acquired through your educational background and training areuseful to you today to command this mission?

19.How do you psychologically deal with the presence of emptiness of space?

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

About ARISS:

AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture ofinternational amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support theInternational Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the RadioAmateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL),the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space communicationsand Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration ofscience, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS doesthis by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew membersaboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students,educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activitiestied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, seewww.ariss.org

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