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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Status Report
January 18, 2010
1. Upcoming School Contacts
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been
scheduled for Minato Junior High School in Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan on
Friday, January 22 at 09:24 UTC. Students are learning about the goals of
the ISS as well as radio communications and are studying for their amateur
radio licenses.
Morioka Children's Museum of Science in Morioka, Iwate, Japan has been
scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact with JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, KD5TVP on Thursday, January 28
at 06:53 UTC. The youth are currently learning about the ISS, satellite
orbits and amateur radio. The contact is expected to be conducted in
Japanese.
2. Commander Jeffrey Williams and Taiwanese Youth Speak via ARISS Contact
On Monday, January 11, Expedition 22 Commander Jeffrey Williams, KD5TVQ
participated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
contact with students attending Humanity Primary and Junior High School
(HPJHS), the first charter school in Taiwan. Joining in the contact were
students from the Technology and Science Institute of Northern Taiwan's
Department of Computer and Communication Engineering. Six hundred guests
attended the event, which was sponsored by the Chinese Taipei Amateur Radio
League (CTARL), and listened as Williams answered 15 questions about life in
space. Media coverage included six television stations and five newspapers.
3. Cosmonauts Participate in Two ARISS Contacts with Kursk University
On Saturday, January 16, cosmonauts Maksim Suraev and Oleg Kotov both
participated in two Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
sessions with students and faculty of the Kursk State Technical University.
The sessions were held on successive ISS passes.
4. Astronaut Training Status
JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, KE5DAW received Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station (ARISS) basic operations training as well as an
ARISS program overview on January 13. Furukawa is training as an Expedition
28 crew member which is planned to launch in May 2011.
Two Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) simulated
contacts are planned with astronauts Doug Wheelock, KF5BOC and Shannon
Walker, KD5DXB on Thursday, January 21. Wheelock and Walker will answer
questions posed by students at the Manhattan Challenger Learning Center, New
York, New York and the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska, Kenai, Alaska,
respectively. Both astronauts are slated to fly with Expedition 24 in May
2010.
5. ARISS Audio in Podcast
On the NASA Do-It-Yourself Podcast Web site is an item about using Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contacts to record unique
audio for use in a student built podcast. The blog provides additional
information via links to the Teaching From Space ARISS Web page as well as
the DIY Podcast Homepage. See: http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/diyPodcastBlog
6. ARRL Articles on Record Number of ARISS Contacts
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) ran a Web story on the record number
of Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contacts held
during 2009. ARISS delegate Rosalie White noted in the article that by
year's end, there was an increased interest in ARISS among U.S. schools as
indicated by educators' queries and the increase in U.S. ARISS applications
submitted. To view the article, go to:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2010/01/12/11285/?nc=1
The story also ran in the ARRL Letter. See:
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/index.html?issue=2010-01-14#toc04
There are approximately 100,000 regular readers of the ARRL Web site and
77,000 read the ARRL Letter.
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