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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report
September 7, 2009
1. Upcoming School Contacts
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for Atheneum Middenschool Keerbergen in Keerbergen, Belgium on
Thursday, September 10 at 09:31 UTC. This will be a telebridge contact via
station W6SRJ in California, conducted in Dutch, with Frank De Winne, ON1DWN.
UNICEF Belgium has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International
Space Station (ARISS) contact on Thursday, September 10 at 09:55 UTC via
LU1CGB in Argentina. UNICEF Belgium is running a campaign called WaSH (Water,
Sanitation, Hygiene) to make students aware of how important water is for
humans. Frank De Winne is one of UNICEF's goodwill ambassadors and as water
provisioning is one of the most challenging problems in space, it seemed
appropriate to link the campaign with Frank's mission. Students participating
in the campaign may win a chance to travel to Euro Space Center to speak with
De Winne through this contact.
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for Tokyo Denki University High/Junior High School in Koganei,
Tokyo, Japan on Saturday, September 12 at 08:25 UTC. The school has a radio
club which recruits new members each year. Students study for their licenses,
learn how to make radio contacts and learn about space and the ISS.
2. ARISS Contact with Craigmore High School
On Wednesday, September 2, an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) contact was held between Craigmore High School in Blakeview, South
Australia and Expedition 20 Astronaut Frank De Winne, ON1DWN, on the ISS. An
audience of 40 people gathered for the event and one newspaper provided media
coverage.
3. ESA Astronaut De Winne Speaks with Vrije Basisschool, Belgium
On Thursday, September 3, Frank De Winne, ON1DWN, participated in an Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with Vrije
Basisschool in De Haan, Belgium via telebridge station VK4HZ in Australia. De
Winne answered twenty-two questions posed to him by the students.
Approximately 240 students, teachers and parents as well as radio, television
and newspaper reporters attended the event. The audio was fed into the
EchoLink AMSAT and JK1ZRW servers.
This was a European Space Agency (ESA) event. Students who participated in the
ARISS contact were chosen through an ESA competition.
4. ARISS Contact with ESA/ESOC Successful
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact was held
at the European Space Agency (ESA)/European Space Operation Centre (ESOC) in
Darmstadt, Germany on Friday, September 4 via telebridge station LU8YY in
Argentina. The contact was held during an open day event, "The Long Night of
the Stars." Students from a local school, "Schuldorf Bergstrasse," in Seeheim
participated in the contact. Astronauts Robert Thirsk, Frank de Winne and
Christer Fuglesang took turns answering eleven questions posed to them. An
audience of 200 gathered at the stage for the contact and several audio and
video links were provided for all the visitor rooms of the Open Day event at
ESOC, so that an additional 750 visitors could connect to the contact. The
event was covered by the television station Hessischer Rundfunk HR3, the radio
station HR-Info Radio Hessischer Rundfunk Frankfurt and two newspapers,
Frankfurter Rundschau and Darmstaedter Echo. There was also a live coverage
via the Internet (Kosmologs) and five freelance journalists were present. The
audio was also fed into the EchoLink AMSAT and JK1ZRW servers.
5. Stockholm Students Question Fuglesang via ARISS Contact
On Sunday, September 6, students from Sätraskolan in Skärholmen, Stockholm,
Sweden participated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) contact via telebridge station LU8YY in Argentina. STS-128 Mission
Specialist Christer Fuglesang, KE5CGR, answered 14 questions as an audience of
400 gathered for the contact. Media covered the event and the audio was fed
into the EchoLink AMSAT and JK1ZRW servers.
6. ARISS News on Amateur Radio Newsline
On September 4, Amateur Radio Newsline Report 1673 reported on the Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) project ARISSat-1. To view
"Ham Radio in Space: Good News for ARISSat-1," see:
ftp://ftp.arnewsline.org/quincy/News-A/news.txt
7. Astronaut Training Status
Astronaut Tracy Caldwell is scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station (ARISS) licensing session on Wednesday, September
9. Caldwell is scheduled to fly with Expedition 23 in April 2010.
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