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Subj: ARISS Update
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 292.03 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. October 19, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-292.03
* ARISS Lithograph Finalized
Marissa Harper has made the final changes to the NASA developed ARISS
lithograph. It is to be submitted for printing on Tuesday, 10/14/03.
* Brazilian Aerospace Museum to Install Ham Station
ARISS Brazilian team member Tadeu Fernandes is working with the aerospace
museum in Afonso Air Base, Brazil to install a ham radio station in the
museum. It will be used to listen to ARISS contacts.
* Brazilian Astronaut to get Ham Radio License
Rosalie White is working with the ARISS Brazilian team to enable astronaut
Marcos Pontes to get his U.S. Ham radio license, so that he may fully
participate in ARISS. Nick Lance at NASA JSC will lead the U.S. license
training for Marcos.
* ARISS Team Continues to work on Packet Radio Issues
ARRIS Russia was unable to perform testing of Packet Radio System due to a
lack of power supplies for their computer systems. It was suggested that
U.S. write a proposal giving crew members permission to use U.S. computers
for testing. This action is in work.
* Upcoming School Contacts
ESA astronaut Pedro Duque, who expects to fly on the upcoming Soyuz flight
to ISS, is scheduled to initiate ARISS contacts with Ceip Seixalbo School in
Ourense, Spain on October 23,2003, and Verbum Casa das palabras in Vigo,
Spain on October 26, 2003.
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 the GSFC website is having problems, 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
In addition you can check out Ed Lu's webpage: http://www.edlu.com/
[ANS thanks Carol Jackson for the above information]
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