Please join us in listening to the ISS contact with participants at the

*ESA Space Camp 2013, Radstadt, Austria* on Wednesday 24 July. AOS is anticipated at 11:44 UTC

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK5ZAI in South Australia. The contact should be audible over Australia and the Pacific. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

The European Space Agency (ESA )space Camp 2013 will be held in Austria at ‘JugendhotelBachlehen’, 70 km away from Mozart’s city of Salzburg, from Sunday 14 July to Sunday 28 July 2013.

165 children aged 8 to 17 years old will be participating in this annual space camp from every ESA establishment in Europe where their parents are working. The children will learn in the spirit of international cooperation and team work to be young space explorers.

The theme of this year’s camp is Space Exploration and during the 2 week of the camp the children will be participating in a range of physical and cultural activities which will include space education.

The space education programme will encourage the children problem solve how to get to Mars.

Designing a landing system for a rover.The exploration challenges they face will be based on carrying out practical ideas to solve these challenges. How do we get the rover to Mars – design and construct your rockets and test them with different payloads. Navigation and communication exercises will enable the payload to land in the right place.

On Landing what kinds of aliens will they find? By looking at the biodiversity in extreme environments on Earth they can think about and design a possible Martian life form – how does this compare to those they found on Earth?

Food is going to be important on a long space flight – what kinds of foods will be important and what will they taste like. How will they preserve food?

The ARISS contact will give the children a chance to talk to a crew member on the ISS and enhance their space experience.

Audio from this contact will be fed into the:

EchoLink *AMSAT* (101377)

IRLP Node 9010 Discovery Reflector

Streaming Audio at: https://sites.google.com/site/arissaudio/

Audio on Echolink & web stream is generally transmitted around 20 minutes prior to the contact taking place so that you can hear some of the preparation that occurs. IRLP will begin just prior to the ground station call to the ISS.

Please note that on Echolink there are automatic breaks of 1.5 seconds in the audio transmission. These occur every 2.5 minutes during the event. Breaks on IRLP are manual and occur approximately after every third question.

** Contact times are approximate. If the ISS executes a reboost or other manoeuvre, the AOS (Acquisition Of Signal) time may alter by a few minutes **

73,

John - AG9D

ARSS Audio Distribution