Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2008-05-08 20:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Delta Researchers Schools 2008, Space Expo, Noordwijk, the Netherlands, telebridge via WH6PN (***) Contact is a go for: Fri 2008-05-23 15:01 UTC 37 deg (***) Next missions with astronaut/hams on board. STS-124 Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 346. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 7. QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, OR4ISS, RS0ISS ***************************************************************************** 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. The crossband repeater has been active at times. The frequencies are uplink of 437.80 MHz and 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; the application must first be sent to the ARISS region coordinator. You should also note that many schools think that they can request a specific date and time. Once an application has been accepted the ARISS mentors will work with the school to determine a mutually agreeable date. There are several ARISS web sites: English: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/ French: http://c.avmdti.free.fr/ariss/index.htm ARISS Europe: http://www.ariss-eu.org/ ARISS Japan: http://www.jarl.or.jp/ariss/ 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) ***************************************************************************** QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's ***************************************************************************** Other web sites 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/ 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 The ISS Fan Club website is: http://www.issfanclub.com K1ELA has a website at: http://members.aol.com/k1ela/index.html ON6SAT has a website at: http://on6sat.com/links/ IRLP website at: http://www.discoveryreflector.ca This new site will have the links for simulcast contacts that have IRLP and Echolink. Additional information may be found on the amsat.org calendar of events for where to find the audio on EchoLink, IRLP and Shoutcast. Friends and family of the Expedition 12 crew have put together a website: http://www.expedition12.com A listing of ARISS related magazine articles: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Currently the list includes articles from CQ, CQ VHF, QST, and The AMSAT Journal. Please contact me directly if you have additional suggestions. Expedition 17 on orbit: Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko RN3DX Garrett Reisman KE5HAE To let you in on how tough it is to schedule contacts, here are some of the constraints the ARISS mentors must work under: Each Increment is 26 weeks in length. For any given expedition, we typically may not schedule: 1. Anything the first 3 weeks. 2. During EVA weeks 3. at least 2 weeks prior to the Increment change. 4. no contacts during meal and exercise periods. 5. no contacts during post-sleep and pre sleep (before 08:00 UTC and after 19:30 UTC) 6. contacts on the day of Progress docking or undocking are circumspect. Mike Fincke KE5AIT and Gennady Padalka RN3DT produced a video during their stay on Expedition 9. You can get the QuickTime version (209MB) or the Windows Media version (152MB). These files are huge, so only a broadband connection is recommended. Thanks Mike and Gennady! QuickTime: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9Tour.mov Windows Media: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9tourwmv.wmv A discussion on Doppler correction and the ISS frequencies may be found at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction.rtf This file was updated 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC ******************************************************************************* ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUDIO STREAMING THAT IS PROVIDED BY Verizon Business. 1. Go to designated homepage URL. 2. Click on Audioconferencing. 3. Click on Audio Streaming. 4. Click on Join. 5. Enter conference meeting number. 6. Enter passcode (case sensitive) and there are 11 letters max. 7. Enter name. 8. Enter email address. 9. Enter company, use ARISS or AMSAT if you want. 10. Enter title (optional). 11. Agree to agreement policy. 12. Click proceed. 13. Wait for contact to start. If you are there too early, then you will probably hear music. Contact streaming should start approximately 6 minutes before AOS. ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE USE OF IRLP, ECHOLINK, and Webcast. IRLP website at: http://www.discoveryreflector.ca If using IRLP is more convenient for you than using EchoLink, please connect to the IRLP reflector 9010. The Discovery 9010 Reflector also has streaming audio available. Once on the main page, select “audio library” on the left sidebar. The prompt to join the audio stream is posted at the top of this page. More directly, you can go to http://www.discoveryreflector.ca:8000/listen.pls The audio stream will be delayed. Additional information on the IRLP Discovery Reflector requirements: The use of the Discovery Reflector requires that your audio player have ability to play a pls file. Confirm that your player has that file. You should also confirm that port 8080 is open to allow the audio stream. Here is how to check Realplayer: 1.  Open up Realplayer 2.  Tools>Preferences>Content Media Types> click on Select located under the Manual button.  You should see .pls as one of the accepted files   Here is how to check Winamp: 1.  Open up Winamp 2.  Options>preference>General preference>file types You should see pls as one of the accepted files Additional information may be found on the amsat.org calendar of events for where to find the audio on EchoLink, IRLP and Shoutcast. Please give the EchoLInk EDU_NET server your preference over the EchoLink AMSAT server for your connection. This will keep the load light on the AMSAT server, assuring us of better audio quality all around. You can connect to the AMSAT Conference Room server at node 101377. Audio is also available at times on the JK1ZRW server at node 277208. Please connect to the *JK1ZRW* server to keep the load light on the *AMSAT* server.  This will ensure good audio quality for all listeners. For latest information on ISS - school contact audio feeds into EchoLink, please check the AMSAT calendar of events at: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/events.php Simulation contacts are terrestrial contacts that provide training for the astronauts on the use of the ARISS equipment before going on orbit. (***) Delta Researchers Schools 2008, Space Expo, Noordwijk, the Netherlands, telebridge via WH6PN (***) Contact is a go for: Fri 2008-05-23 15:01 UTC 37 deg (***) Proposed questions for Delta Researchers Schools 2008: 1. If you are in space for a long time and you can't take a shower or open a window, does the space station start to smell bad? 2. What happens with steam from boiled water in space? 3. Where do you get water from? 4. I have braces because my teeth are crooked. I have to wear them for nearly one year. If you had braces in space, would they straighten your teeth faster? 5. Is your voice different in space? 6. What do you do if a fire breaks out in the space station? 7. What do you have to do to stay strong? 8. If an astronaut becomes seriously ill in space, what happens? 9. Do magnets work in space? 10. What do you eat in space, what is your favourite food and how do you eat? 11. What is the temperature outside the space station like? 12. Has it always been your dream to become an astronaut? 13. When orbiting the earth, you can see where it is day and night. Do you notice a difference between day and night on the space station? To which time on earth does a clock on the space station correspond? 14. Does the sun shine more strongly in space and do the stars look different from the space station? 15. Do you notice that you are moving very fast on board the space station? And during a space walk, do you notice it then? 16. Do things grow faster in space than on earth? (e.g. children, plants, hair, nails?). 17. Can you see atmospheric pollution and the hole in the ozone layer from space? 18. Do you miss your family very much? Armada Area Schools, Armada, Michigan, direct via K8UO TBD UTC Proposed questions for Armada Area Schools: 1. How can your work on the International Space Station affect the way we live in the future? 2. When the space shuttle took off, what was your first thought?  3. Can you give us a specific example of one of your fears and how you conquered it? 4. What or who inspired you to become an astronaut?  5. How are your senses affected in space? 6. What does it feel like to float in zero gravity? 7. If something were to go wrong, like Apollo13, what safety measures are in place to prevent it? 8. While looking back at you High School classes, are there any that you thought you were never going to use, but ended up using anyway? 9. How do you watch/keep track of the changes your body experiences such as bone metabolism and oxidative damage? 10. How do you get energy to power the space station? 11. How do you break water down to get your oxygen supply? 12. How would you get back to Earth if all of a sudden computers lost power? 13. What will the temperature be on the re-entry to the atmosphere? 14. If you didn’t exercise before returning to Earth would you have a hard time walking? 15. How do you take showers when the water floats up in the air? 16. What types of experiments are being conducted currently on the space station? 17. What is your response to the skeptics who claim we never landed on the moon? 18. How do you know the space shuttle will land at the space station? 19. Even with all your training and preparation, was there something that surprised you that you weren’t prepared for? 20. What has been the major challenge you faced since you have been on the International Space Station? 21. Given the risks of space travel, where do you find the courage to do your job? 22. What is the hardest part of staying in space so long? 23. How do you sleep without gravity? 24. What are the reactions of people when you tell them you lived on the space station and have become a part of history? 25. How much bone loss do you have on each mission? DaVinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology, Allentown, PA, via telebridge TBD TBD UTC Proposed questions for DaVinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology: 1. Did you fix anything while you were in space? If so, what? 2. Is there a special camera that you have to use and how well does it work? 3. How long you do you think it will be until there are long-term living quarters in space? 4. Does it feel any different in space than in under water training? 5. How do you keep oxygen on the space station since there isn’t any in space? 6. Do plants grow differently in space and how do you water them? 7. How much would a hundred pound astronaut weigh on the moon? 8. Will people who are not trained astronauts be able to go onto the International Space Station? 9. How do you do things like eating and sleeping without gravity? 10. How do you stop loss of bone mass on a mission? 11. How is the space station powered? 12. Is the space station big enough for you to have private space when people get on your nerves? 13. Has there ever been a serious medical problem on the space shuttle and how did you solve the problem? 14. If a space rock the size of a football were to hit the station what would happen? 15. How do you protect yourself from cosmic radiation? 16. Do you want to be involved with the mission to Mars and why? 17. When you were a child did you want to become an astronaut and why? 18. How did you feel the first time you saw Earth from space? 19. Do you ever worry that you might not come back to see your loved ones? 20. Why did you become an astronaut since there is a risk of dying? 21. Do you believe in intelligent alien life? Direzione Didattica 2°Circolo De Gasperi, Noicattaro, I-70016 and 2 Circolo Didattico, San Giuseppe, Mola di Bari, I-70042, Italy, direct via IZ7EVR TBD UTC Currently the ARISS operations team has a list of 60 schools that we hope will be able to have a contact during 2008. 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. 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors