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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 243.05 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. August 28, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-243.05
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2003-08-27 04:00 UTC
The ARISS (a joint effort of AMSAT, the ARRL, NASA, the ARISS international
partners 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.
ISS Expedition 7 crew:
Ed Lu KC5WKJ
Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP
Tentative cutoff day for ARISS contacts with Expedition 7 is 2003-09-20
Next up Expedition 8 crew:
Mike Foale KB5UAC
Alexander Kaleri U8MIR
Tentative schedule:
2003-10-18 Soyuz launch
2003-10-20 dock
2003-10-28 undock
Incarnate Word Academy Houston, TX
Contact is a go Thursday 2003-08-28 18:58 UTC at 81 degrees
Boulder High School
Contact is a go for Wed 2003-09-03 16:10 UTC (***)
Cornell University
Contact is a go Thu 2003-09-04 13:40 UTC
Kagawa Junior High School, Ube City, Japan
TBD direct via 8N4ISS (***)
Webster High School, Webster, N.Y.
TBD UTC
Stanford University
Palo Alto Gunn High School, California
TBD UTC
Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii
TBD UTC
Verbum Casa das Palabras Vigo Spain
TBD UTC with Pedro Duque
Ceip Seixalbo school Ourense, Spain
TBD UTC with Pedro Duque
Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee, Tallahassee, FL
TBD UTC (Contact was not completed)
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, AJ9N, for the above information]
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