Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2014-09-18 04:30 UTC

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

Institut Florimont, Petit-Lancy, Switzerland, direct via 4U1ITU Contact was successful: Wed 2014-09-17 08:17:28 UTC 88 deg (***)

Winter Gardens Primary School, Canvey Island, United Kingdom and Pilton Bluecoat School, Barnstaple, United Kingdom, telebridge via VK4KHZ Contact is a go for: Tue 2014-09-23 10:37:33 UTC 53 deg

Contact is a go for: Thu 2014-09-25 10:36:40 UTC 30 deg telebridge via VK4KHZ (If Prime) Contact is a go for: Thu 2014-09-25 11:14:07 UTC 54 deg telebridge via K6DUE (if SLIP) SLIP plan assumes no Space-X4 launch and the Soyuz (40S) docking will be on 2014-09-27 (UTC 270)

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From 2014-11-10 to 2014-12-07, there will be no US Operational Segment

(USOS) hams on board ISS. So any schools contacts during this period will be conducted by the ARISS Russia team.

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ARISS is requesting listener reports for the above contacts. Due to issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully understood at present, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these contacts. ARISS thanks everyone in advance for their assistance. Feel free to send your reports to [email protected] or [email protected].

**************************************************************************** *** Several of you have sent me emails asking about the RAC ARISS website and not being able to get in. That has now been changed to http://www.ariss.org/

Note that there are links to other ARISS websites from this site.

**************************************************************************** *** Looking for something new to do? How about receiving DATV from the ISS? If interested, then please go to the ARISS-EU website for complete details. Look for the buttons indicating Ham Video.

http://www.ariss-eu.org/ **************************************************************************** *** ARISS congratulations the following mentors who have now mentored over 100 schools:

Gaston ON4WF with 119 (***) Francesco IKØWGF with 103 Satoshi 7M3TJZ with 103

**************************************************************************** The webpages listed below were all reviewed for accuracy. Out of date webpages were removed and new ones have been added. If there are additional ARISS websites I need to know about, please let me know.

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 928. (***) Each school counts as 1 event.

Year Direct % Telebridge % Direct/ % Direct/ Total Direct Telebridge Telebridge Telebridge 2000 1 100.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 2001 25 59.52 17 40.48 0 0.00 42 2002 25 60.98 16 39.02 0 0.00 41 2003 29 74.36 10 25.64 0 0.00 39 2004 25 71.43 10 28.57 0 0.00 35 2005 37 67.27 18 32.73 0 0.00 55 2006 31 65.96 16 34.04 0 0.00 47 2007 51 68.00 24 32.00 0 0.00 75 2008 33 53.23 29 46.77 0 0.00 62 2009 57 47.11 62 51.24 2 1.65 121 2010 31 64.58 16 33.33 1 2.08 48 2011 86 69.35 38 30.65 0 0.00 124 2012 51 54.84 42 45.16 0 0.00 93 2013 46 49.46 40 43.01 7 7.53 93 2014 40 76.92 12 23.08 0 0.00 52

Grand 568 61.21 350 37.72 10 1.08 928 Total

Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 907. (***) Each contact may have multiple schools sharing the same time slot.

Year Direct % Telebridge % Direct/ % Direct/ Total Direct Telebridge Telebridge Telebridge 2000 1 100.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 1 2001 25 59.52 17 40.48 0 0.00 42 2002 24 60.00 16 40.00 0 0.00 40 2003 29 74.36 10 25.64 0 0.00 39 2004 25 71.43 10 28.57 0 0.00 35 2005 36 66.67 18 33.33 0 0.00 54 2006 31 65.96 16 34.04 0 0.00 47 2007 51 68.00 24 32.00 0 0.00 75 2008 33 60.00 22 40.00 0 0.00 55 2009 57 47.11 62 51.24 2 1.65 121 2010 31 64.58 16 33.33 1 2.08 48 2011 78 67.24 38 32.76 0 0.00 116 2012 51 54.84 42 45.16 0 0.00 93 2013 45 50.56 40 44.94 4 4.49 89 2014 40 76.92 12 23.08 0 0.00 52

Grand 557 61.41 343 37.82 7 0.77 907 Total

Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 46.

Please feel free to contact me if more detailed statistics are needed.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ 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 window for contacts during the second half of 2014 has already closed. Look for the window for first half 2015 contacts later this year. You must go through NASA to get the proposal material. Contact Teaching From Space, a NASA Education office, at [email protected] or by calling them at (281) 244-2320.

The following US states and entities have never had an ARISS contact: Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, and the Virgin Islands.

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QSL information may be found at: http://www.ariss.org/qsl-cards.html

ISS callsigns: DPØISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RSØISS

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The ARISS (a joint effort of AMSAT, the ARRL, NASA, the ARISS international partners including Canada, Russia, the European Partners, and Japan) operations team wishes to announce the following very tentative schedule for ARISS school contacts. This schedule is very fluid and may change at the last minute. Remember that amateur radio use on the ISS is considered secondary. Please check the various AMSAT and ARISS webpages for the latest announcements. Changes from the last announcement are noted with (***). Also, please check MSNBC.com for possible live retransmissions (http://www.msnbc.com/m/lv/default.asp). Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.8Ø MHz.

The crossband repeater has been active at times. The frequencies are uplink of 437.8Ø MHz and downlink of 145.8Ø MHz.

For information about educational materials available from ISS partner space Agencies, please refer to links on the ARISS Frequently Asked Questions page.

If you are interested in supporting an ARISS contact, then you must fill in an application. The ARISS operations mentor team will not accept a direct request to support an ARISS contact; the application must first be sent to the ARISS region coordinator.

You should also note that many schools think that they can request a specific date and time. Once an application has been accepted the ARISS mentors will work with the school to determine a mutually agreeable date.

There are several ARISS web sites:

English: http://www.ariss.org/ Note this is the new site location. This site also has links to many other ARISS sites: http://www.ariss.org/other-ariss-websites.html

ARISS France: http://ariss.fr.free.fr/

ARISS Europe: http://www.ariss-eu.org/

ARISS Japan: http://www.jarl.or.jp/ariss/

Your completely filled out application should be returned to the nearest coordinating ARISS region if your specific region is not listed. E-mail is the preferred method of submitting an application.

Here are the email addresses: ARISS-Canada and all other countries not covered: [email protected] (Maurice-André Vigneault VA2MA/VE3VIG) ARISS-Europe: [email protected] (Francesco De Paolis, IK0WGF) ARISS-Japan and all Region 3 countries: [email protected] (Keigo Komuro JA1KAB) ARISS-Russia: [email protected] (Valerie Agabekov N2WW/UA6HZ) ARISS-USA: contact NASA at [email protected]

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ARRL related websites: http://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-on-the-international-space-station http://www.arrl.org/ariss

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AMSAT related websites: http://www.amsat.org

Latest ARISS announcements and news http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/ariss/

Successful school list http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf

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NASA related websites:

Main page: http://www.nasa.gov/

For Educators: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html

For Students: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/teachingfromspace/students/ariss.h tml (instructions for US schools wanting to apply for a contact may be found here)

For Media: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/index.html

Teaching From Space (TIF): http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/teachingfromspace/contact_tfs/inde...

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The ISS Fan Club website is: http://www.issfanclub.com

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ON6SAT has a website at: http://on6sat.com/links/ ============================================================================ ===

IRLP website at: http://www.discoveryreflector.ca This site will have the links for simulcast contacts that have IRLP and Echolink.

Additional information may be found on the amsat.org calendar of events for where to find the audio on EchoLink, IRLP and Shoutcast.

============================================================================ === Check out the Zoho reports of the ARISS contact https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBDataSheetView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415 ============================================================================ ===

A listing of ARISS related magazine articles: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Currently the list includes articles from CQ, CQ VHF, QST, and The AMSAT Journal. Please contact me directly if you have additional suggestions.

Exp. 39/40 on orbit Steve Swanson Aleksander Skvortsov Oleg Artemyev

Exp. 40/41 on orbit Maxim Suraev Gregory Wiseman KF5LKT Alexander Gerst KF5ONO

To let you in on how tough it is to schedule contacts, here are some of the constraints the ARISS mentors must work under: Each Increment is 26 weeks in length.

For any given expedition, we typically may not schedule: 1. Anything the first 3 weeks. 2. During EVA weeks 3. At least 2 weeks prior to the Increment change. 4. No contacts during meal and exercise periods. 5. No contacts during post-sleep and pre sleep (before Ø8:ØØ UTC and after 19:3Ø UTC) 6. Contacts on the day of Progress docking or undocking are circumspect.

Mike Fincke KE5AIT and Gennady Padalka RN3DT produced a video during their stay on Expedition 9. You can get the QuickTime version (209MB) or the Windows Media version (152MB). These files are huge, so only a broadband connection is recommended. Thanks Mike and Gennady!

QuickTime: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9Tour.mov Windows Media: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9tourwmv.wmv

Doug Wheelock KF5BOC produced a YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73EYcyszf8

A discussion on Doppler correction and the ISS frequencies may be found at

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction .rtf

This file was updated 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC

**************************************************************************** *** ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUDIO STREAMING THAT IS PROVIDED BY Verizon Business. 1. Go to designated homepage URL. 2. Click on Audioconferencing. 3. Click on Audio Streaming. 4. Click on Join. 5. Enter conference meeting number. 6. Enter passcode (case sensitive) and there are 11 letters max. 7. Enter name. 8. Enter email address. 9. Enter company, use ARISS or AMSAT if you want. 10. Enter title (optional). 11. Agree to agreement policy. 12. Click proceed. 13. Wait for contact to start. If you are there too early, then you will probably hear music. Contact streaming should start approximately 6 minutes before AOS.

ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE USE OF IRLP, ECHOLINK, and Webcast. IRLP website at: http://www.discoveryreflector.ca If using IRLP is more convenient for you than using EchoLink, please connect to the IRLP reflector 9Ø1Ø.

The Discovery 9Ø1Ø Reflector also has streaming audio available. Once on the main page, select “audio library” on the left sidebar. The prompt to join the audio stream is posted at the top of this page.

More directly, you can go to http://www.discoveryreflector.ca:8%C3%98%C3%98%C3%98/listen.pls

The audio stream will be delayed.

Additional information on the IRLP Discovery Reflector requirements: The use of the Discovery Reflector requires that your audio player have ability to play a pls file. Confirm that your player has that file. You should also confirm that port 8Ø8Ø is open to allow the audio stream.

Here is how to check Realplayer: 1. Open up Realplayer 2. Tools>Preferences>Content Media Types> click on Select located under the Manual button. You should see .pls as one of the accepted files

Here is how to check Winamp: 1. Open up Winamp 2. Options>preference>General preference>file types You should see pls as one of the accepted files

Additional information may be found on the amsat.org calendar of events for where to find the audio on EchoLink, IRLP and Shoutcast.

You can connect to the AMSAT Conference Room server at node 1Ø1377. Audio is also available at times on the JK1ZRW server at node 2772Ø8. Please connect to the *JK1ZRW* server to keep the load light on the *AMSAT* server. This will ensure good audio quality for all listeners.

For latest information on ISS - school contact audio feeds into EchoLink, please check the AMSAT calendar of events at:

http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/events.php

Simulation contacts are terrestrial contacts that provide training for the astronauts on the use of the ARISS equipment before going on orbit.

Institut Florimont, Petit-Lancy, Switzerland, direct via 4U1ITU Contact was successful: Wed 2014-09-17 08:17:28 UTC 88 deg (***) Congratulations to the Institut Florimont students and Greg! (***)

Proposed questions generated by the Institut Florimont students:

1. Are the mobile phones working fine in space? 2. How do you wash yourself on the ISS? 3. Can you create a gravitational field on the ISS as if you'd be on earth? 4. What were your motivations to become an astronaut? 5. Can you really see the Chinese Great Wall from space? 6. Do you feel isolated in space? 7. At what speed are you travelling right now? 8. Are there any women with you at the ISS? 9. What do you do in your free time? 10. How do you come back to Earth after your mission? 11. How long have you already been in space? 12. What is this effect of absence of gravity on your body? 13. How do you communicate with your family? 14. Do you talk also with radio amateurs or only with schools? 15. Can you see the ozone layer around the Earth? 16. What do you feel seeing sunrises and sunsets more than one per day? 17. Do you have to protect yourself against cosmic radiation? 18. Does the absence of gravity disturb the blood circulation in your body? 19. What thing did surprise you the most when arriving on the ISS? 20. What do you dream about when you are on the ISS?

============================================================================ === Winter Gardens Primary School, Canvey Island, United Kingdom and Pilton Bluecoat School, Barnstaple, United Kingdom, telebridge via VK4KHZ Contact is a go for: Tue 2014-09-23 10:37:33 UTC 53 deg

Proposed questions generated by the Winter Gardens Primary School and Pilton Bluecoat School students:

1. What is the maximum number of people that can live on the ISS? 2. What inspired you to become an astronaut? 3. What sort of food do you eat? 4. What is your daily routine like? 5. If you cry, do the tears run down your face or just float away? 6. Where does all of your waste go? 7. How do you get supplies such as food, drink and clothes? 8. What effect does no gravity have on your body? 9. How do you get air up there? 10. Have you experienced any meteor showers? 11. Can you use ink pens when there is no gravity? 12. Who came up with the idea of a space station? 13. When you are in space, how often do you get to talk to your family? 14. How often do you work outside the space station? 15. How much sleep do you get in space when you do not know if it is night or day? 16. What is the most serious emergency you have had to deal with? 17. How did you become an astronaut? 18. What interesting research have you done in space? 19. How long does it take you to get rid of your ‘space feeling’ when you come back home? 20. How do you get to and enter the space station? 21. How do you know what is happening down on earth, do you get electronic versions of newspapers? 22. What do you do on space walks? 23. If you were not an astronaut, what would you have been? 24. Is it an advantage or disadvantage to have no gravity on the ISS?

============================================================================ === Gulf English School, Kuwait City, Kuwait and Language High School “Geo Milev”, Dobrich, Bulgaria, Contact is a go for: Thu 2014-09-25 10:36:40 UTC 30 deg telebridge via VK4KHZ (If Prime) Contact is a go for: Thu 2014-09-25 11:14:07 UTC 54 deg via K6DUE (if SLIP) SLIP plan assumes no Space-X4 launch and the Soyuz (40S) docking will be on 2014-09-27 (UTC 270)

Proposed questions generated by the “Geo Milev” and Gulf English students: 1. What are the most important activities you do every day? 2. Have you watched the world cup and as a whole have you got time for activities like watching television or playing computer games? 3. Does food taste the same in space? 4. Is it possible in case of fire to empty the oxygen from the premises until the fire is put out and then filled back in? 5. What are you investigating on the space station right now? 6. What kind of experiments do you carry out? 7. What is the most important piece of equipment on the space station? 8. What would be the first think you will do if you encounter an alien? 9. How do you treat injured people? 10. Has a meteorite passed close to the station? 11. What do you do for fun? 12. When will people land on Mars? 13. Do you feel pressure in your ears when you travel to the space station? 14. How do you keep in touch with your families? 15. During a mission, is it possible to lose vitamin D and become ill? 16. What effort is it for you to maintain such big equipment and how do you maintain contact with Earth? 17. Why did you want to be an astronaut? 18. How does this kind of work affect you (the smallest mistake could cause serious damages)? 19. When you look out of the window, do you see things which we cannot see from Earth? 20. What kind of physical exercises do you do to keep fit?

============================================================================ === Special Event Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum, Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia, telebridge via TBD TBD UTC

Proposed questions generated by Special Event Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum students: 1. How long did it take to get to the space station from earth? 2. Is it true that sea plankton has been found on the outside of the window of the ISS and if it is, how do you think it got there? 3. How do you carry out your day to day activities like washing, eating, exercising? 4. How do you cope with coming back to Earth? 5. When you were at school did you ever imagine you would be an astronaut? 6. What do you miss about not being on Earth the most? 7. When in space, is the earth and other planets beautiful from up there? 8. Who was your biggest influence when you decided to become an astronaut? 9. What type of technology do you use to get in touch with earth? 10. Do you eat proper food, or do you eat hard food and liquid food? 11. What is your favourite thing about being on the International Space Station? 12. What do you do in your free time? 13. Does music sound different on the space station? 14. Did you study any particular subjects to help you achieve your dreams? 15. What kind of things have you seen in space? 16. Can you feel the heat from the sun on the International Space Station? 17. How do you exercise in space? 18. Overall how long does it take to get ready and for blast off?

======= ======================================================================== CEPES, Belgium and Mimar Sinan Özel Okulları, İstanbul, Turkey, telebridge via TBD TBD UTC

Proposed questions generated by the CEPES and Mimar Sinan Özel Okulları students:

1. What kind of physical exercises did you do during the astronaut training? 2. What time zone do you use on the ISS? 3. Did you participate to survival camps during your astronaut training? 4. Did you have to change your diet during your training? 5. How do you contact your family from on the ISS? 6. How are you supplied with food and drinking water? 7. Did you bring special food to the ISS? 8. Are usual activities as easy in weightlessness as on earth? 9. How long was your training as an astronaut? 10. What did you feel when launching to space? 11. How many hours do you exercise every day? 12. What is more precisely your task aboard the ISS? 13. Is astronaut food as tasty as at home? 14. How do you prefer to spend you free time? 15. What happens if an astronaut gets sick? 16. What are the physical troubles your body undergoes during a long stay on board the ISS? 17. How did you feel when you arrived in space? 18. How do you have a wash and how do you go to the toilet? 19. How do you drink water in zero gravity? 20. How are your days organized?

============================================================================ === Indiana Area School District, Indiana, PA, telebridge via TBD TBD UTC

============================================================================ === Team Sky and Rocket (NPO Sora-To-Rocket-Dan), Kariya, Aichi, Japan, direct via TBD TBD UTC

============================================================================ === Albert Park College, Albert Park, Victoria, Australia, telebridge via TBD TBD UTC

============================================================================ === The Explorers Club, New York City, New York, telebridge via TBD TBD UTC

============================================================================ === Council Rock High School-South, Holland, PA, direct via TBD TBD UTC

=================================================== ============================ Bisei Elementary School, Ibara, Japan, direct via TBD TBD UTC

============================================================================ === SK Putrajaya Presint 9, Putrajaya, Malaysia, direct via 9M2RPN TBD UTC

============================================================================ === Airdrie Space Science Club, Airdrie, Alberta, Canada, direct via VE6JBJ TBD UTC

============================================================================ === DLR School Lab TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, direct via DLØIKT and Woehlerschule, Frankfurt, Germany, direct via DLØFFM or DLØFM or DBØFJG TBD UTC

============================================================================ === Lycée européen Charles de Gaulle, Dijon, France, telebridge via TBD TBD UTC

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Currently the ARISS operations team has a list of 60 schools that we hope will be able to have a contact during 2014. As the schedule becomes more solidified, we will be letting everyone know. Current plans call for an average of one scheduled school contact per week.

73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors