Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report
June 4, 2012
1. Upcoming School Contact
Kawatinagano Higashi Junior High School in Kawatinagano, Osaka, Japan has
been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) contact on Wednesday, June 6 at 11:18 UTC. The contact will
supplement lessons about the ISS and its mission.
2. Australian Contact Successful
On Friday, June 1, an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) contact was held between on-orbit astronaut Don Pettit, KD5MDT and
St. Mary's Catholic Primary School in Hay, NSW, Australia via telebridge
station VK6MJ. Approximately 200 students and guests were in attendance.
Students were well prepared for the radio connection and had been learning
about space, the Space Station and astronauts. Drawings, pictures and
written articles created by the youth were on display at the school.
Students had all their questions answered and gave a big "Thank you" to
Pettit before the ISS went over the horizon.
3. Burbank Debrief Held
On Wednesday, May 30, ARISS team members participated in an ISS Ham debrief
session with Expedition 29/30 crew member Dan Burbank. The astronaut
provided feedback on the ISS Ham radio equipment and ARISS school contacts.
His feedback will aid the ARISS team in keeping its program and procedures
up-to-date.
4. ARISS in ARRL QST
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) had a few items about ARISS in its
June QST. The "Media Hits" column included:
--mention of the PR hit in Patch.com titled, "Parkside Elementary To
International Space Station, Over" regarding Parkside Elementary's contact
with the ISS
--mention of the PR hit in the Southwest News-Herald titled, "Liberty
Junior Makes Space Station Contact" regarding Liberty Jr. High's contact
with the ISS
5. AMSAT News Service on ARISS
On June 3, AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) News Service bulletin
(ANS-155) ran an article titled, "STEM Education Identified as Critical for
Continued Rides to Space." The item covers AMSAT's education goals and lists
its needs for support. See: http://amsat.org/pipermail/ans/2012/000624.html
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2012-06-03 01:30 UTC
Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:
St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Hay, NSW, Australia, telebridge via
VK6MJ
Contact was successful: Fri 2012-06-01 10:44:56 UTC 68 deg (***)
Kawatinagano Higashi Junior High School, Kawatinagano, Japan, direct via
8N3KN
Contact is a go for: Wed 2012-06-06 11:18:23 UTC 40 deg
Note, all times are approximate. It is recommended that you do your own
orbital prediction or start listening about 10 minutes before the listed
time.
All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8061 date and
time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school events is 727. (***)
Each school counts as 1 event.
Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 710. (***)
Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.
Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 44.
A complete year by year breakdown of the contacts may be found in the
file.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf
Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed.
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US Hams, don’t forget that there is a new process for US school proposals.
For US schools to have an ARISS contact, they must fill out a proposal,
submit it to NASA, and see if they are approved or not. Once a school is
approved and put on the list, an ARISS mentor will be assigned to assist the
school.
NASA will have two open windows a year for schools to submit a proposal.
The first window for contacts during the first half of 2012 has already
closed. Look for the second window for second half 2012 contacts later this
year. You must go through NASA to get the proposal material. Contact
Teaching From Space, a NASA Education office, at JSC-TFS-ARISS(a)mail.nasa.gov or
by calling them at (281) 244-2320.
The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact:
Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island,
South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam,
Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
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IN LIGHT OF SOME COMMENTS THAT HAVE APPEARED RECENTLY ON THE VARIOUS
BULLETIN
BOARDS; THE COMMENTS BELOW STILL HOLD TRUE:
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QSL information may be found at:
http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.htmlhttp://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's
ISS callsigns: DPØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS
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The complete schedule page has been updated as of 2012-06-03 01:30 UTC.
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Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and
questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and
instructions for any contact that may be streamed live.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf (note change of file
type)
The successful school list has been updated as of 2012-06-03 01:30 UTC.
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http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf
Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing
Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction
.rtf
Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf
Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contacts
ARISS School Contacts
https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415
Successful ARISS contacts
https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?OBJID=412218000000023448
Additional Zoho links may be found at
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf
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There have been rumors in the past indicating that the ISS was having
direct contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on
board
and available yet. The HF antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will
retransmit shuttle audio.
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Exp. 30/31 on orbit
Oleg Kononenko RN3DX
Donald R. Pettit KD5MDT
André Kuipers PI9ISS
Exp. 31/32 on orbit
Gennady Padalka RN3DT
Joe Acaba KE5DAR
Sergey Revin
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73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors
A final reminder that nominations for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors
elections are due by June 15th. This year there are three regular seats on
the Board to be filled, plus up to two alternates to be selected. Regular
members will serve for two years, and alternates for one year.
If you want to run yourself, or you know someone you feel should run, this
is your chance to influence the direction of our organization. You will
find the details in this weekend's ANS release, or at WWW.AMSAT.ORG toward
the bottom of the front page.
Alan
WA4SCA
AMSAT Corporate Secretary
