| |
W4DPH > SAT 13.07.03 12:59l 194 Lines 5666 Bytes #999 (0) @ AMSAT
BID : ANS-194.06
Read: GUEST
Subj: Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2003-07-08 15:00 UTC
Path: DB0ZKA<DB0KFB<DB0GAP<DB0BOX<DB0MRW<DB0ERF<DB0ABZ<DB0EAM<DB0SMG<DB0RES<
ON0AR<WB0TAX<W4DPH
Sent: 030713/1049Z @:W4DPH.#TPA.FL.USA.NOAM #:63920 [CLW] FBB $:ANS-194.06
From: W4DPH@W4DPH.#TPA.FL.USA.NOAM
To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 194.06 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. July 13, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-194.06
The ARISS (a joint effort of AMSAT, the ARRL, NASA, the ARISS
internationalpartners including Canada, Russia, the European
Partners, and Japan) operations team wishes to announce the
following very tentative schedule for ARISS school contacts.
This schedule is very fluid and may change at the last minute.
Remember that amateur radio use on the ISS is considered secondary.
Please check the various AMSAT and ARISS webpages for the latest
announcements. Changes from the last announcement are noted with (***).
Also, please check MSNBC.com for possible live retransmissions
(http://www.msnbc.com/m/lv/default.asp). Listen for the ISS on the
downlink of 145.80 MHz.
For information about educational materials available from ISS partner
space Agencies, please refer to links on the ARISS Frequently Asked
Questions
page.
If you are interested in supporting an ARISS contact, then you must
fill in an application. The ARISS operations mentor team will not
accept a direct request to support an ARISS contact.
You should also note that many schools think that they can request a
specific date and time. It does not work that way. Once an
application has been accepted, the ARISS mentors will work with the
school to determine a mutually agreeable date.
Websites that may be of interest include:
http://www.arrl.org/sarex
http://www.arrl.org/ariss
http://www.amsat.org
http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/index.html
http://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/educator_guide/
Your completely filled out application should be returned to the
nearest coordinating ARISS region if your specific region is not
listed. E-mail is the preferred method of submitting an application.
Here are the email addresses:
ARISS-Canada and all other countries not covered:
ve2ka@rac.ca (Daniel Lamoureux VE2KA)
ARISS-Europe: jh.hahn@gmx.net (J. Hahn, DL3LUM / PA1MUC)
ARISS-Japan and all Region 3 countries:
iaru-r3@jarl.or.jp (Keigo Komuro JA1KAB)
ARISS-Russia: n2ww@attbi.com (Valerie Agabekov N2WW/UA6HZ)
ARISS-USA: ARISS@arrl.org (The American Radio Relay League)
ISS Expedition 7 crew:
Ed Lu KC5WKJ
Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP
Euro Space Center Space Camp, Transinne, Belgium
Contact was a success Mon 2003-07-07 08:25 UTC via ON4ESC (***)
Congratulations Euro Space Center Space Camp and Ed Lu KC5WKJ (***)
Webster High School, Webster, N.Y.
TBD UTC
Stanford University
Palo Alto Gunn High School, California
TBD UTC
Cornell University
TBD UTC
Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii
TBD UTC
Boulder High School
TBD
International Space School
TBD
Incarnate Word Academy Houston, TX
TBD
Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee, Tallahassee, FL
TBD UTC
Contact was not completed
Brussels Planetarium
Proposed questions for Brussels Planetarium are:
1. Can you really recognize Belgium by night?
2. Can you see the greenhouse effect on earth from aboard the ISS?
3. Is the ISS not too small to live comfortably? And has life in space
any influence on your physical and psychological condition?
4. Does it make a big difference to observe sun and planets from high
up there?
5. What impresses you most when you look to the earth?
6. Can you experience the big silence of the universe despite the noise
inside the ISS?
7. Since you don't have to overcome the steady pull down of gravity in
space, does this state of microgravity has an influence on the process of
getting tired?
8. What is the importance of doing experiments in space?
9. What would happen when you were in space without a protecting space
suit?
10. How was it on the first of July to celebrate your birthday in
space? Was there a little party onboard?
11. Is it easy onboard the ISS to live together with people from
different origins and cultures? And do you have any advice for people on
earth to
live in peace?
12. What do you experience when you are performing a spacewalk?
13. How long do night and day last up there? Does this cause problems?
14. Can natural disasters be forecast from space?
15. Do you experience the same feeling in space when you are hungry?
16. Can the ISS be damaged by space debris? And how can we solve this
problem?
17. Can one have muscular pain in the weightless circumstance of space?
If it does exist, does it feel the same as on earth?
18. How do you experience the notion of time while floating free in
space?
19. What is the less pleasant aspect of being onboard the ISS?
20. Are the space simulations on earth comparable to the real thing?
Turkey Space Camp
TBD
Soar Valley College, England
Neston Primary School, Corsham, England
TBD
Kagawa Junior High School, Ube City, Japan
TBD
The latest ARISS announcement and successful school list is now
available on the ARISS web site. Several ways to get there.
Latest ARISS announcements and news
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt
Successful school list
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf
or
http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov
If you can not get into the GSFC site, then go directly to the RAC site.
(***)
click on English (sorry I don't know French)
you are now at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/
click on News
Currently the ARISS operations team has a list of over 60 schools that we
hope will be able to have a contact during 2003. As the schedule becomes
more
solidified, we will be letting everyone know. Current plans call for an
average
of one scheduled school contact per week.
[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N, for the above information.]
Read previous mail | Read next mail
| |
