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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report
September 28, 2009
1. Upcoming School Contacts
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for R. T. Alderman in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Monday, September
28 at 20:43 UTC. Educators have developed a series of assignments to reflect
both the Alberta curricula and the radio contact experience. Journal entries,
computer research projects, skits, and other writing assignments will be
required class work in the weeks following the contact. Some teachers are also
considering having students design a mural to commemorate this occasion as a
companion to the already existing Robert Thirsk mural in one of the
stairwells.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for Pavilhão do Conhecimento - Ciência Viva in Lisbon, Portugal on
Thursday, October 1 at 14:20 UTC. Telebridge station ON4ISS in Belgium will
provide the connection.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for the University of Liege in Liege, Belgium on Friday, October 2
at 13:09 UTC via station ON4ISS in Belgium. The university offers the only
aerospace engineering education program in the French part of Belgium. In the
context of the OUFTI-1 project (www.oufti.ulg.ac.be) that aims at building a
CubeSat featuring the amateur radio D-STAR technology, an amateur radio club
was formed at the university.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for Scuola Secondaria 1° Grado "Alighieri - Trevigi" in Casale
Monferrato, Prov. Alessandria, Italy on Friday, October 2 at 14:46 UTC.
Preparation for the contact will motivate youth to study Science, History,
Geography, Information Technology and English.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for Boy Scouts of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Saturday,
October 3 at 18:07 UTC. Scouts and Cubs will participate in a "Space Program
Event" which will be held in conjunction with the Scout Science Badge Award
system.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for Sint-Michielscollege Brasschaat vzw (SMCB) in Brasschaat,
Belgium on Wednesday, October 7 at 10:20 UTC. Visits to space and science
museums are among the science activities planned for the children. Guest
speakers will include a representative from Verhaert Space Systems and Dirk
Frimout, Belgium's first astronaut.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled with the National Planetarium in Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan,
Malaysia on Thursday, October 8 at 09:34 UTC. The contact will occur as part
of the National Space Challenge, a program that was created in an effort to
instill the talents and desire towards the understanding of space in primary
school aged children. Sixteen schools will participate.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for Belmont Elementary School in Langley, British Columbia, Canada
on Friday, October 9 at 20:20 UTC. Students will complete projects with a
"Mission Control" theme and the Langley Amateur Radio Association (L.A.R.A.)
will work with the school to organize this event.
2. ARISS Contact Between De Winne and Vrij Technisch Instituut Sint-Lucas
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact took place
on Tuesday, September 22. Students from Vrij Technisch Instituut Sint-Lucas
in Oudenaarde, Oost - Vlaanderen, Belgium posed 20 questions to Frank De
Winne, ON1DWN. An audience of 300 students and teachers were present as well
as television, radio and newspaper reporters. The antennas used for the
contact as well as a UPS device were constructed by the students.
3. Barratt and HMS Beagle Project Connect via ARISS
On Tuesday, September 22, the HMS Beagle Project in Parati, Brazil
participated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact via ground station K6DUE in Maryland. Approximately sixty students
were present and watched as classmates asked ten questions of Mike Barratt,
KD5MIJ. The project (which aims to rebuild the ship that carried Darwin
around the world) and NASA have signed an International Space Act Agreement,
with Barratt as the initiator and main connection on the NASA side of the
project. The project will unite ISS astronaut photography with ocean surface
water and other biological and physical samples taken by the crew of the new
Beagle.
4. ARISS Contact with Cedarview Middle School
Students attending Cedarview Middle School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
experienced an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact on Thursday, September 24. Astronaut Robert Thirsk, VA3CSA answered 20
questions put to him by the students. The school principal commented on the
contact, "I have never seen this kind of quiet on students at a school wide
event before." CTV Ottawa and other local media provided news coverage.
5. Garfield Elementary, WHEELS and ARISS Team up to Talk about Space
Garfield Elementary School students in Boise, Idaho participated in an Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Thursday,
September 24 via telebridge station W6SRJ in California. Students visited the
NASA Exploration Experience traveling exhibit on display at the Idaho
Historical Museum to learn about space exploration and its benefits. Students
were able to ask 6 questions of Astronaut Mike Barratt, KD5MIJ during the 9
minute pass. The event was well attended by youth, teachers and parents.
Students were also observing the contact at the W6SRJ ground station - two
were students from Santa Rosa Junior College and another student was visiting
from a local K-12 school. Media coverage included three television stations
and the audio was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT and JK1ZRW servers.
6. Thirsk Speaks with Japanese Students via ARISS Contact
On Saturday, September 27, students from Houya Elementary School in
Nishitokyo, Japan participated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) contact. Astronaut Robert Thirsk, VA3CSA answered 15
questions posed by the students. An audience of approximately 250 was present
for the contact. News coverage was provided by two magazines and an FM radio
station.
7. ISS SSTV Active
Gennady Padalka, RN3DT activated the MAI-75 experiment onboard the ISS on
Thursday and Friday, September 24 and 25 from approximately 1000-1600 UTC.
Slow Scan Television (SSTV) images of Earth were downlinked to ground
stations, including one at the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI).
8. Astronaut Training Status
Astronaut Tracy Caldwell, KF5DBF was given an overview session on the Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program this past week.
Caldwell is scheduled to fly with Expedition 23 in April 2010.
9. ARRL QST Covers ARISS News
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) published two ARISS (Amateur Radio on
the International Space Station) related news items in its October 2009 issue
of QST. The first is a short item regarding the Boy Scouts of America Venture
Crew 272 of Hillsboro, IN, and Troop 17 from Champaign IL that hosted hundreds
of scouts in July at the third annual Space Jam. The most favorite activity
was talking to Astronaut Bob Thirsk, VA3CSA on the ISS. The scouts took part
in two high altitude balloon launches, and worked on earning the Radio Merit
scouting badges. The second item (page 20) is a short article on ARRL
recognizing members of the USS Hornet, some of whom supported the NASA capsule
recovery mission for Apollo 11. The USS Hornet Amateur Radio Club sponsors
training for Radio Merit scouting badges, and one veteran regaled boy scouts
describing his duties as shark sharpshooter during a capsule recovery mission.
The ARRL monthly journal has a circulation of 150,000.
10. ARRL Article on Dayton Hamvention
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) posted a web story about an ARISS
(Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) team member who attended
Dayton Hamvention for the first time this year. This member took in seminars
by Richard Garriott and visited the AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite
Corporation) ARISS-related exhibits, including the ARISSat-1 hardware. See:
http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2009/09/18/11083/?nc=1
11. ARISS News on Amateur Radio Newsline
On September 25, Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1676 reported on Amateur Radio
on the International Space Station (ARISS) astronaut training. To view "Ham
Radio in Space: Astronauts Train with Terrestrial School Contacts," see:
ftp://ftp.arnewsline.org/quincy/News-A/news.txt
12. AMSAT Symposium, ARISS Ops Meeting
The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) Symposium will be held on
Friday, October 9 through Sunday, October 11 at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel
at the Baltimore Washington Airport in Maryland. Several ARISS (Amateur Radio
on the International Space Station) and ARISSat-1 presentations will be given
and a demo of ARISSat-1 is planned. To view a list of these presentations, go
to: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2009/Presentations.php
The ARISS Operations team will hold a meeting after the symposium on Sunday,
October 11.
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