[amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Fri May 24 17:38:21 UTC 2019

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada on 27 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 20:18 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time.The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK6MJ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia 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 and French.

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Walter Murray Collegiate is in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Along with its many standard course, it has some excellent engineering/ electronics courses and a very extensive hands-on "shop" class which involves machinery, welding, carpentry, car repair etc. There is also very busy "tech" club that is involved in robotics as well as a "science" club that this year was very excited about the "Tomatosphere" project.

Contact day with David will be very busy. We will, have on site, the University of Saskatchewan engineering faculty represented by USST, the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team. USST will be demonstrating 2 of their projects that day. One team will represent and demonstrate CubeSatÕs and the other team will engage all the students with the Rover project. As well RASC Saskatoon will be there will solar scopes and will be in the auditorium with demonstration telescopes. As well ARISS/ SARC will have their amateur radio equipment for all the students.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 

1. How do relations between countries on Earth impact relationships between   

   astronauts of different nationalities?

2. What did you bring with you to space?

3. What are your next goals after you return to Earth?

4. As technology develops and it becomes safer and more economically 

   efficient to send unmanned flights to space, what argument would you give 

   in favour of continued investment in manned space flight?

5. Combien de force ressentiez-vous lorsque vous quittez l'atmosphère et 

   échappez l'attraction gravitationnelle de la Terre?  Translation: How much 

   force do you feel when you are leaving the atmosphere and escaping the 

   gravitational pull of Earth?

6. What do you think is the most interesting experiment you are working on 

   currently on the ISS and why is it important?

7. Why do you think space travel is important in an age where problems like 

   climate change exist?

8. With climate change growing on Earth, do you think the rate of space 

   debris will cause a problem in the future? If so, what could be done about 

   it?

9. How can people not interested in actually going to space help support 

   Canadian space programs? Is there anything random civilians, high school 

   students, etc. can do to help explore the galaxy?

10. Should we be considering the legal and economic impact of colonizing Mars 

    or is it too early to consider at this time?

11. What do you think is the future of space exploration? Do you have ideas 

    of what it might look like?

12. In space, you have to be very careful with the resources you are offered. 

    How can you apply this to being more eco-friendly on Earth?

13. What is the most memorable view you remember seeing when you were 

    traveling to, or actually at, the ISS?

14. What's something that you never realized until going into space?

15. Are the computers and parts of the ISS still from when it was sent into 

    space or were they upgraded?

16. I know you have changed career paths a lot. What was the most valuable 

    thing you learned while finding your passion as an astronaut?

17. What utensils are used to write in space? Can you use pens and pencils? 

    If not, what do you use?

18. Do you think more resources should be spent on saving Earth or leaving 

    it?

19. How has going into space and the experience of observing the universe 

    from such a surreal perspective contributed to your opinion on the 

    existence of life in other places?

20. Is medicine different in space? If so, how?

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Next planned event(s):

 1. Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD

    The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

    The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko

    Contact is go for: Sun 2019-05-26 15:55 UTC

 2. Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Los Suenos, Costa Rica,   

    telebridge via IK1SLD

    The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS

    The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI

    Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 16:31:25 UTC 34 deg

    Starting about 15 minutes before AOS, watch for a live stream at     

    www.ariotti.com

 3. Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada, telebridge via ON4ISS

    The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS

    The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI

    Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 19:44:22 UTC 81 deg

 4. Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD

    The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

    The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin

    Contact is a go for Wed 2019-06-05 07:50 UTC

About ARISS

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Thank you & 73,

David - AA4KN

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