[amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Powys Secondary Schools, Mid Wales, UK

Sat Mar 5 09:55:20 UTC 2016

The live stream from the school starts in 10 minutes from this email
10:00UTC and the contact is 50 minutes later 10:53UTC. We don't expect
live video from the HAMTV system but you never know. There is a great
team in the UK working hard to provide professional live streams.
(Below is the questions etc)

See here:
https://principia.ariss.org/Live/

On 03/03/2016, n4csitwo at bellsouth.net <n4csitwo at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
> participants at Powys Secondary Schools, Mid Wales, UK on 05 Mar. The event
> is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:53 UTC. The duration of the
> contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be
> direct between GB1SS and GB4PCS. The contact should be audible over portions
> of the UK and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on
> the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in
> English.
>
> Powys Combined Schools represent all secondary schools across the county of
> Powys in Wales. With students from over 90 primary schools and 12 secondary
> schools, we represent students from the age of 4 up to 18. As Powys Combined
> Schools, we have a pool of some 7,700 students aged 11-18 and a similar
> number of 4-11 year olds in the primary schools.
>
> Our goal is to leverage our existing relationships with the primaries in
> each secondary catchment area to organise a county wide event over the
> months leading up to the ARISS contact. During which time workshops,
> projects and activities aimed around STEM subjects would be run. Powys
> covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of
> Brecknockshire (Breconshire), and a small part of Denbighshire - an area of
> 5,179 km² or 2,000 sq miles, making it the largest county in Wales by land
> area. Most of Powys is mountainous, with north-south transport being
> difficult. The majority of the Powys population lives in villages and small
> towns. The largest towns are Newtown, Ystradgynlais, Brecon, and Welshpool.
> Powys has the lowest population density of all the principal areas of Wales.
> Just under a third of the residents have Welsh linguistic skills: Welsh
> speakers are concentrated mainly in the rural areas both in and around
> Machynlleth, Llanfyllin and Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant (where William Morgan
> first translated the whole Bible into Welsh in 1588) in Montgomeryshire
> (Welsh: Sir Drefaldwyn), and the industrial area of Ystradgynlais in the
> extreme south-west of Brecknockshire (Welsh: Sir Frycheiniog).
>
>
>
>
>
> Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
>
>
>
> 1.  What training regime did you have to undertake in order to prepare for
>
>     your mission to the space station?
>
> 2.  What is your favourite study that you carrying out to show what life is
>
>
>     like in space?
>
> 3.  What objects in space can you see more clearly with your eyes in space?
>
> 4.  Can you describe the automatic systems on board the ISS to keep you in
>
>     your current orbit?
>
> 5.  What research are you currently working on?
>
> 6.  Do you ever feel sudden vertigo or claustrophobia whilst you are up in
>
>     space?
>
> 7.  Do you feel your senses are any different in space compared to being on
>
>
>     the ground - for example is your sense of smell more acute?
>
> 8.  On the Principia website, it says you are looking into a range of
>
>     research areas including 'novel materials'. Can you describe a new
>
>     material you are working on?
>
> 9.  Can you describe what is meant by 'Fluid Physics' and describe any
>
>     experiments you are conducting using 'Fluid Physics'?
>
> 10.  On one of your video reports, we can see you watching the 6 Nations
>
>      Rugby.  How can you have a better picture in space compared to us here
>
>
>      on earth?
>
> 11. What inspires you to keep up the demanding physical exercise routines in
>
>
>     space?
>
> 12.  How long do you expect it to take you to acclimatise when you
>
>      return to the earths surface?
>
> 13.  Of the objects you said that you can see with your eyes, what specific
>
>
>      detail is better from space?
>
> 14.  How do you assess your muscular strength in space?
>
> 15.  Can you describe how you get into and leave the ISS without losing any
>
>
>      air?
>
> 16.  What is your favourite discovery you and the team have made during your
>
>
>      time in space so far?
>
> 17.  How long does it take to prepare for a spacewalk??
>
> 18.  Picking one 'novel material', can you describe how it would be used on
>
>
>      earth?
>
> 19.  Of all the experiments you are carrying out on the human body, which
> one
>
>      has given you the biggest surprise in terms of results?
>
> 20.  Which of the communication systems that you use on the ISS to talk to
>
>      friends and family gives the clearest signal?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Next planned event(s):
>
>
>
>         1.  Slovanské Gymnázium Olomouc, Olomouc,  Moravia, Czech Republic,
>
>
>             direct via
>
>             OK2KYJ
>
>             The ISS callsign is presently  scheduled to be OR4ISS
>
>             The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI
>
>             Contact is a go for: Tue 2016-03-08 08:22:43 UTC
>
>
>
>         2.  Atlanta Science Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, telebridge via
> K6DUE
>
>             The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
>
>             The scheduled  astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN
>
>             Contact is a go for: Tue 2016-03-08  16:11:05 UTC
>
>
>
>         3.  North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC),  Grand Forks, North
>
>
>             Dakota, telebridge via W6SRJ the ISS callsign is presently
>
>             scheduled to be NA1SS
>
>             The scheduled astronaut is Tim Kopra KE5UDN
>
>             Contact is a go for: Thu 2016-03-10 19:08:55 UTC 56 deg
>
>
>
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>
> Thank you & 73,
>
> David - AA4KN
>
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