[amsat-bb] ARISS News Release No. 20-14

[David Jordan]

ARISS News Release                                                                                                   No.   20-14     

Dave Jordan, AA4KN 

ARISS PR

aa4kn at amsat.org

 

 

 

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

 

ARISS Contact Scheduledfor Students at KMO Kolska Wyspa, Koło,Poland

 

September01, 2020—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is thegroup that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students aroundthe globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS). 

 

This ARISS event will be a telebridge contact via amateur radio and students will take turnsasking their questions of ISS Commander Chris Cassidy, amateur radio call sign KF5KDR. MartinDiggins, amateur radio call sign VK6MJ, in Australia will serve as the relay amateur radio ground station. 

 

The ARISS contact is scheduled for September 2,2020 at 2:58 pm CEST in Kolo (12:58 pm UTC, 8:58 am EDT, 7:58 amCDT, 6:58 am MDT and 5:58 am PDT).

 

Several educational groups have beenselected for the ARISS school contact. 

 

The Klub Młodych Odkrywców (KMO) KolskaWyspa is a club of teen explorers, which was founded in June 2013 and youthhave taken part in educational programs in cooperation with the CopernicusScience Centre in Warsaw. The club is involved in the MoonKAM and the EarthKAM missions.In cooperation with 12 other clubs of teen explorers in Poland, KMO KolskaWyspa promoted these missions with an exhibition called "The Earth fromthe Sky.” 

 

Also invited to the ARISS contact arestudents from the Adam Mickiewicz Primary School No. 2, which has 120 studentsages 12 to 15, and Kazimierz Wielki Secondary School, which has 90 studentsages 16 to 19. Both schools are in Koło. The first offers students theopportunity to take part in many space-related activities and the second schoolis famous for the construction of robots.

 

     

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1. What do you dowhen you get ill or injured?

2. How long did youtrain before flying into space?

3. What kind of funactivities can you do in the state of microgravity?

4. What kind of fooddo you eat and is it tasty?

5. As fizzy drinksare forbidden in space because of CO2, so what time and how are you going tocelebrate the New Year on the ISS?

6. Do you use anywatches and clocks on the station?

7. What do you dreamabout most of all when you are in space?

8. What kind ofspacesuits do you use in outer space?

9. What do astronautsfeel when a spaceship docks to the ISS?

10. Is it true thatflights in the Crew Dragon are more comfortable than those in the SpaceShuttles?

11. What is theeffect of space flight on your body?

12. Do you keep intouch with your family or friends on Earth when you are in space?

13. What is the rangeof temperature inside and outside of the ISS?

14. What do you do inyour free time in space?

15. How often do youclean the ISS and why is it so important?

16. Where do you havemore appetite on Earth or in space?

17. What kind ofbooks do you read in space?

18. What kind ofresearch are you doing in space right now?

19. What kind ofrobots do you use in space and what are their applications?

20. How many timescan you see fireworks on Earth to celebrate the New Year’s Eve around theWorld?

 

 

ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur RadioContinuous Operations on the ISS

 

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the InternationalSpace Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radiosocieties and the space agencies that support the International Space Station(ISS).  In the United States, sponsorsare the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio RelayLeague (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s SpaceCommunications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promoteexploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematicstopics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew membersaboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students,educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, andamateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org



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