10 posts tagged “or4iss”

Soyez à l'écoute sur 145.800Mhz à partir de 21h35 ce jeudi et ouvrez l'oeil car la station traversera le ciel d'Ouest en Est. A 350Kms d'altitude, elle sera encore éclairée par le soleil. Cherchez donc un point brillant qui se déplace... J'ai pu l'observer ce soir pendant 2 minutes vers 22h25 tout en écoutant le packet sur 145.825Mhz. Le contrôle est de S9+20dB jusqu'au moment où elle passe derrière mon horizon !
 
Voici la liste des questions et le lien pour les images:

1.  How important is the amateur radio station on board the ISS?
2.  What projects do you carry out on board the International Space Station?
3.  Who pays for all the costs of the ISS project?
4.  What is it like living in a small place like the space shuttle for a few days?
5.  Would you like to participate in a journey to the Moon?
6.  What does the ISS inside smell like?
7.  Is there a magnetic field in the ISS orbit?
8.  Can you breathe normally on board the ISS?
9.  How do you cope with the alternation of day and night every 45 minutes?
10. How long did the training last in order to participate in this mission?
11. What do you do if you get sick in Space?
12. What do your family and your friends think about your job?
13. What is the most dangerous moment during the mission, the take-off or the landing?
14. What do you eat and drink?
15. Would it be possible to produce artificial gravity on the ISS?
16. Is it difficult and dangerous to pass through the atmosphere before landing?
17. Is the perception of time onboard the ISS the same as on Earth?
18. What was the most spectacular moment during your stay in Space?
19. How often can you communicate with your family on Earth?
20. What does it feel like to live without gravity?

A 19h07 heure d'ici (soit  17h07 en temps universel) CT1HHP Luciano doit établir la liaison avec OR4ISS pour les élèves de Trofa au nord du Portugal.

Voici les questions. Bonne écoute sur 145.800Mhz.

1.  How many times have you been in space? In what circumstances?
2.  Do you like football? What is your favorite Portuguese football team and your favorite football player?
3.  How many astronauts are there in the shuttle?
4.  How long have you been an astronaut?
5.  When you were a child, did you want to be an astronaut?
6.  How long do you have to stay in space?
7.  How do you communicate with your family?
8.  Do you have Internet access in space?
9.  What happens if you are sick? Do you have medicine to treat yourself?
10. What is the temperature outside and in the space station?
11. Do you like computer games? What are your favorites?
12. How do you generate and store electricity?
13. How much time does it take you to go around the Earth?
14. What do you do with your rubbish?
15. How does your day at the station go?
16. Can you see any objects flying in space?
17. How was your trip from the Earth to the space station?
18 .What is life like in zero gravity?
19. Do you ever get out of the spaceship? How do you manage to do so?
20. Does the Earth look beautiful from space?

Télébridge pour l'Allemagne et le Luxembourg via la Belgique (OR4ISS). Vous pourrez donc écouter la voie descendante sur 145.800Mhz.

1. Tom from Luxembourg: How did you feel during the shuttle launch?

2. Marco from Germany: How does the earth look like from the station and is it possible to recognize buildings on Earth from the ISS?

3. Laura from Luxembourg: Beside the sun, the earth, the moon, what other planets can you see from ISS?

4. Simon from Germany: Can you take a bath or a shower in the ISS?

5. Chris from Luxembourg: Is it tiring to move at zero gravity?

6. Philipp from Germany: Why do the astronauts have to clean the ISS periodically every week?

7. Gilbert from Luxembourg: What was the hardest job you have done at the station?

8. Julian from Germany: How is security provided for oxygen supply?

9. Daniel from Luxembourg: What kind of space food do you like best?

10. Jacqueline from Germany: How do you deal with the garbage in the ISS?

11. Max from Germany: Where do you keep your dirty laundry?

12. Arno from Germany: Which standard time are you using in the ISS and how do you know if it is day or night and when it’s time to sleep?

13. Moritz from Germany: Do you snore more or less in weightlessness of Space than you do on Earth?

14. Sebastian from Germany: What happens if someone in the station gets extremely sick or severely injured?

15. Laura from Luxembourg: What kind of experiments are you making at the station and what is your mission in the space station?

16. Tom from Luxembourg: We know that you work very hard in space. What do you do to relax and have fun?

17. Jacqueline from Germany: What did you astonish most in the space?

18. Chris from Luxembourg: Do you get homesick in space? If so, how do you deal with it?

19. Philipp from Germany: How do you prevent your food from flying away in zero gravity?

20. Daniel from Luxembourg: Has space garbage crashed with the ISS?

Hier soir, le contact a été annulé au dernier moment mais a été replanifié pour l'orbite suivante soit vers 20h44 locale. Franck De Winne a répondu à 20 questions.  

Ce vendredi OR4ISS sera opérée par ON1DWN Franck. Tout d'abord à 8h52 locale pour les établissements scolaires de l'Aquila dans les abruzzes. Pour mémoire cette ville a été durement touchée par un tremblement de terre il y a deux mois et les cours ont encore lieu sous des tentes. Les images de ce rendez-vous seront diffusées sur ISS Contact tv et voici les questions:

1. How were you informed about the devastating earthquake that struck our city?
2. I have read about "LAZIO-EAGLE" and "VSPLESK" experiments on ISS.  Are they related to earthquake forecasting? Are they still on?
3. Can we send you any photos about what we are experiencing in L'Aquila?
4. Have you ever been in Italy? And in Abruzzo region?
5. Do you have the opportunity to communicate with your family or your friends?
6. What are the most important experiments you are now performing on ISS?
7. Are there now experiments conceived by Italian schools?
8. Can you hear the sound of a thunderstorm from there?
9. When you were a child, did you ever dream to go to the space?
10. How do you cope in space with the needs of daily life such as drinking, eating, sleeping, having a shower?
11. Which is the maximum number of astronauts that can live on ISS for a long period?
12. Why the name OASISS for your mission?
13. Could you say something about OASISS support of the UNICEF?
14. When did you decide to become an astronaut?
15. Which is the youngest astronaut that ever was onboard ISS?
16. How do you prepare yourself to live in space?
17. Can you drink a "caffe espresso" on ISS?
18. Can you produce a soap-bubble inside ISS?
19. What would you say to encourage young people to become astronauts?
20. Would you like to explore the Moon?

Le deuxième contact aura lieu à 13h38 locale pour l'école primaire et la maternelle de Leuven en Belgique. Les échanges auront lieu en flamand. Pour les néerlandophones voici les questions :-D

1. Thomas: Hoe is het om de wereldbol vanuit de ruimte te kunnen bewonderen?
2. Jordi: Wat eten jullie, en is het lekker?
3. Julie: Hoe kan je je kleren wassen in het ISS?
4. Thomas: Hoe koud is het in de ruimte?
5. Simon: Ben je al een ander ruimteschip tegengekomen?
6. Charlotte: Zie je in de ruimte het verschil tussen dag en nacht?
7. Eline: Hoe heb je voldoende elektriciteit om al de experimenten uit te voeren?
8. Elden: Kan je zonnebloemen kweken aan boord van het ISS?
9. Emilie: Hoe slaap je in de ruimte?
10. Luna: Kan je met een astronautenhelm op aan je neus krabben?
11. Ellen: Kan je in de ruimte iets ruiken of horen?
12. Laurien: Kan je ergens tegen botsen in de ruimte?
13. Adam: Gaat het in de toekomst gemakkelijker worden om naar de ruimte te reizen?
14. Nette: Kan de zuurstof aan boord van het ISS opraken?
15. Lore: Hoe zorg je ervoor de het eten en drinken niet rondzweeft tijden de maaltijd?
16. Amber: Mag je in het ISS een bril of lenzen dragen?
17. Sanna: Waarom is er geen zuurstof in de ruimte?
18. Ben: Wat gebeurt er met je urine en stoelgang nadat je naar het toilet bent geweest?
19. Tom: Zie je de aarde draaien vanuit het ISS?
20. Mathieu: Van waar komt het eten in het ISS?
21. Karel: Wat doe je als de motor kapot is?
22. Jessa: Hoeveel keer ben je al naar de ruimte gegaan?

Bonne écoute sur 145.800Mhz ou sur les conférences echolink *AMSAT* et *JK1ZRW*

J'adore la question de la petite Luna: Comment faîtes-vous pour vous gratter le nez avec un casque d'astronaute ;-D

Les élèves de deux écoles répartis sur neuf classes, tous agés de 6 à 14 ans, ont préparé les questions suivantes:

1. Why did you become an astronaut?
2. How do you spend your free time?
3. How long are you already on board the ISS?
4. How many people are there on the ISS?
5. What is your role on board the ISS?
6. What does your daily routine look like?
7. What are you seeing outside at the moment?
8. Is it difficult to get used to zero gravity?
9. Is it hard to eat in microgravity and what do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
10. When did you become an astronaut?
11. Have you ever seen any meteorites from the ISS and are you afraid of them?
12. What are the minimum and maximum temperatures inside and outside the ISS?
13. How far is it to the Earth from the ISS?
14. How long is it day, how long is it night and how is your time divided into day and night?
15. Can you recognize the different continents on Earth from there?
16. How often do you receive news from your family?
17. How long did you train to become an astronaut?
18. How many chambers are there inside the ISS?
19. What kind of energy runs the ISS on?

Bonne écoute sur 145.800Mhz, sur l'internet ou bien encore en D-STAR:

Ecole Alessandro Volta:
http://www.arierba.it/testo2.php

Ecole Andrea Ponti:
http://www.mogulus.com/iq2gm

D-Star Conference via reflector REF007 channel B (Gallarate)

Demain mardi 10 février à partir de 11h20 locale, soyez à l'écoute de la fréquence. Pour ma part, je suis impatient de connaître la réponse à la question de Serena. "Quelle est l'importance de la station radioamateur à bord de l'ISS ?"
Une diffusion en direct sur internet est également prévue demain.

ARISS CONTACT PLANNED WITH SCHOOL IN PIETRASANTA, ITALY

An International Space Station Expedition 18 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at the Istituto Comprensivo Pietrasanta1-Scuola Secondaria 1° Grado, Padre Eugenio Barsanti, Pietrasanta, Italy on Tuesday 10 February 2009. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10.24 UTC, which is 11.24 CEWT.
The contact will be a direct between stations OR4ISS and IZ5NII. The contact should be audible over most of Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.800 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.
Pietrasanta is a small town in Tuscany, 30km north of Pisa near the Ligurian Sea. It is a centre for processing marble and bronze with many art galleries.
The school is situated in the centre of Pietrasanta, in a large building near the Town Hall. It is attended by 313 students from the age of eleven to the age of thirteen-fourteen. The School has an experimental curriculum, covering basic subjects plus additional activities such as Drama, Art, Music, IT, Science, Foreign Languages, carried out by groups of students.

The participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

1. Serena: How important is the amateur radio station on board the ISS?
2. Simone: .What projects do you carry out on board the International Space Station?
3. Costanza. Who pays for all the costs of the ISS project?
4. Daisy: What is it like living in a small place like the space shuttle for a few days?
5. Amelia: Would you like to participate in a journey to the Moon?
6. Matteo: What does the ISS inside smell like?
7. Roberta: Is there a magnetic field in the ISS orbit?
8. Michele: Can you breathe normally on board the ISS?
9. Tommaso: How do you cope with the alternation of day and night every 45 minutes?
10. Christian: How long did the training last in order to participate in this mission?
11. Lorena: What do you do if you get sick in Space?
12. Linda: What do your family and your friends think about your job?
13. Simone: What is the most dangerous moment during the mission, the take-off or the landing?
14. Filippo: What do you eat and drink?
15. Emanuele: Would it be possible to produce artificial gravity on the ISS?
16. Filippo: Is it difficult and dangerous to pass through the atmosphere before landing?
17. Sara: Is the perception of time onboard the ISS the same as on Earth?
18. Serena: What was the most spectacular moment during your stay in Space?
19. Luca: How often can you communicate with your family on Earth?
20. Aymane: What does it feel like to live without gravity?

Et mercredi 11 février à partir de 8h40 locale, les réponses seront audibles non seulement en europe mais aussi depuis le proche-orient.

ARISS CONTACT PLANNED WITH SCHOOL IN ALEXANDROUPOLIS, GREECE

An International Space Station Expedition 18 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at 1st and 2nd Lyceums of Alexandroupolis, Greece on Wednesday 11 February 2009. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 07:43 UTC.
The contact will be a direct between stations OR4ISS and SX7ISS. The contact should be audible over most of Europe and the Near-East. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.800 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.
Alexandroupolis is the capital of Evros (population over 60.000) and has a leading role in the geographical area of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, being the connecting gate between the countries of the European Union, the Mediterranean area, Asia and the countries around the Black sea. Therefore, the town has become one of the major junctions of the European Union.
The ARISS school contact will take place in 1st High School Alexandroupolis, Evros, Greece. About  70-80 students from 1st and 2nd High School will participate to this event. Students are aged 15-16 years.
Orestiada High School will also participate (about 25 students). All the students have astronomy lessons in 2nd Class.
Members of Thrace Amateur Astronomy Club (founded 2004) will be there. This club will organize the 6th Panhellenic Amateur Astronomy Conference 25-27 September 2009.

The participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

1. Panagiotis. Do all the members of the crew have equal access to the rooms of ISS or is there any restricted access to some of them?
2. IVasilis. What made you decide to become an astronaut ?  
3. Paraskevi. Have you ever faced any kind of technical problems while onboard ISS ?  
4. Vagelis. How many individuals does it take and for how long can one stay in the ISS?  
5. Fotis. Do you regard a manned mission to the Mars in the next 5 to 10 years feasible?
6. Stavroula. Can you tell us which is the most important task you have to do during your mission?
7. Rafaella. How long does the training of a cosmonaut last?
8. Georgios. Do you believe that your ISS experience will influence your future life in any way?
9. Marina. Can the ISS be functional for a while unmanned or is the continual presence of the crew essential?  
10. Nikolaos. If you had the possibility would you choose a permanent stay on the ISS?  
11. Despoina. We know that your program is full. Nevertheless how do you spend your spare time, if you have any?  
12. Vasilios. How long does the flight up to the connection with the ISS take?  
13. Dimitra. What do you normally do in the station and what are you working on during these days?  
14. Athanasia. We assume that you work all day long. Do you have any spare time for yourselves?  
15. Petros. Do you have enough time to communicate with your families?
16. Dimitra. What are the temperature conditions and pressure inside and outside the station?  
17. Dimitra. In the past many accidents occurred. Aren't you afraid of the fact that this might happen again every time you are sent up there?
18. Sofia. How many times a day do you eat and what do your meals look like? Do you take all the necessary nutritional substances you need?
19. Alexandros. Where do you get electricity from into the station?  
20. Sofia. How does it feel when you are looking at the earth and our whole solar system?

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.

Cette après-midi vers 15h50 locale

ARISS CONTACT PLANNED WITH PILTON BLUECOAT JUNIOR SCHOOL, BARNSTAPLE, UK

An International Space Station ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at the Pilton Bluecoat Junior School, Barnstaple, UK on 06 February. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14.52 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between stations OR4ISS and G0NPV. The contact should be audible over most of Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.800 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Pilton Bluecoat school has 260 pupils aged between 7 to 11 years old.  The school is  situated in the town of Barnstaple which has a population of 34,000.  Barnstaple is close to the surfing beaches of North Devon and is a popular tourist destination.  Children come from a range of social backgrounds, mostly from the immediate area close to the school.  School is proud on the vibrancy of the curriculum and is always seeking ways to make activities interesting, relevant, practical and enjoyable. This is reflected in the way they present the school environment, where they work hard to ensure it is well organized, stimulating and a place where children can grow as young citizens.  They encourage the children to pursue their own ideas and celebrate individual creativity.

The participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. What inspired you to become an astronaut?
2. What do you remember most from your training?
3. What is your greatest achievement as an ISS astronaut?
4. When the rocket fires at launch how do you feel?
5. Has being an astronaut changed the way you feel about life?
6. What dangers do you face whilst living on the space station?
7. What do you do if there is an equipment failure on board?
8. What happens if a crew member becomes unwell?
9. Are there any times during a mission when you feel nervous?
10. What is the most unpopular job on the ISS?
11. What would you do during a typical 24 hours on board?
12. How do you feel when you return to Earth after a long mission?
13. What discoveries have been made on the space station that have benefited the people on Earth?
14. How do you know when it is night and day and when to sleep and get up?
15. When looking at the Earth from the space station can you see any man-made objects?
16. Do you feel closer to God in Space or on Earth?
17. How do you wash your clothes and dishes on the space station?
18. Have you or any other members of the crew seen any unidentified objects whilst in space?
19. How do you celebrate Christmas and birthdays in space?
20. Will it be possible for you to visit us if you ever come to the UK?

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.

Et demain vers 11h30

ARISS CONTACT PLANNED WITH GYMNASIUM HERZOGENRATH, GERMANY

An International Space Station Expedition 18 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at the Staedtisches Gymnasium Herzogenrath in Germany on 7 February 2009. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10.36 UTC, which is 11.36 CEWT.

The contact will be a direct between stations OR4ISS and DR0G . The contact should be audible over most of Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.800 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

The "Staedtisches Gymnasium Herzogenrath" is a well-established grammar school in Herzogenrath, a smaller town near Aachen. Presently, 1142 students, aged 10 to 19, attend the school with the aim to do their "Abitur" (A-level). Most of them come from a suburban area. As the school is closely situated to the Dutch border, they are eager to establish a close cooperation with a Dutch comprehensive school. Furthermore they encourage the students to take part in school exchanges, for example to Bistritz in Romania and to Belfast, Northern Ireland, or to spend a year abroad.

The "Staedtisches Gymnasium" is delighted in offering its students a wide range of extra curricular activities to meet the students' interests which are going beyond school topics and to consolidate their knowledge in various fields. One these extra curricular clubs is the "Funk-AG" (radio amateur club) whose members have initiated the project on the international space station. Their work will include the preparation and realization of a school exhibition on the history of radio transmission. Moreover, it is planned to receive signals from meteorological satellites and to put the data on display in the entrance hall. Their findings will thus be shared by the school community. The topic "universe and/or international space station", for instance, is part of our school curriculum in year 6 (11 to 12-year-old pupils) and in year 11 (16 to 17-year-old students).

In addition, the History Department is delighted in joining this project. In year 10 the "space race" is dealt with in detail as an essential part of the "Cold War".

The participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. To what extent do we on earth profit from your experiments on the ISS?
2. What are the aims of your present mission?
3. How much energy do you need daily and what kind of energy is it?
4. What about radiation on the ISS? Does it harm your health?
5. Have you had any problems with oncoming meteorites or space debris?
6. Which qualifications do you need to be on such a mission?
7. What were your feelings and emotions during lift off?
8. Do you lose your sense of time on the ISS?
9. How do you spend your free time on the ISS?
10. Have you got any room for your personal belongings?
11. What happens if you are ill?
12. What happens to the human body if you stay in space too long?
13. How often do you see the sunrise on the ISS per day?
14. What happens in case of an emergency, for example if the ISS is on fire?
15. Can you sleep well in a state of zero gravity?
16. How do you wash your hair?
17. How many experiments do you do a day?
18. Have you and your colleagues become friends?
19. What would you say is your most important experience on the ISS?
20. When do you think will mankind be able to leave our solar system?

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers onboard the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning.

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman

http://www.ariss-eu.org

Un télébridge est prévu entre les stations NA1SS et ON4ISS pour 
l'hopital des enfants malades à Ottawa(Canada). Donc si tout se 
déroule bien, vous pourrez entendre la voie descendante comme 
à l'habitude sur 145.800Mhz +- doppler. L'échange se déroulera en 
anglais, vous avez la liste des questions un peu plus bas. 

Pour savoir qui répondra (je parie sur Sandy ;-) soyez à l'écoute à 
partir de 19h00 locale.


ARISS SCHOOL CONTACT PLANNED WITH CHIDREN'S HOSPITAL IN OTTAWA

An International Space Station Expedition 18 ARISS school contact has been
planned with participants at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 20 January. The event is scheduled to begin at
approximately 18.06 UTC, which is 19.06 CEWT.

The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and ON4ISS. The
contact should be audible over most of Europe. Interested parties are
invited to listen in on the 145.800 MHz downlink. Audio from the contact
should also be available via the AMSAT conference on EchoLink and via the
9010 Discovery reflector on IRLP. The participants are expected to conduct
the conversation in English. 

The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario is an academic pediatric
hospital affiliated with the University of Ottawa, with a mandate for care,
research and teaching. Over the past thirty years, CHEO has established
itself as a world-class academic health sciences centre providing
leading-edge treatment, diagnostic and laboratory services for children and
youth aged 0 to 18 years. CHEO houses the Provincial Centre of Excellence
for Child and Youth Mental Health and the Ontario Newborn Screening
Program. CHEO is an active partner in the Champlain Local Health
Integration Network, providing leadership in all aspects of pediatric
health and wellbeing.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 
1. How do you take a shower/bath
2. What is the best part about being an astronaut?
3. What do you eat?
4. How do you communicate with family?
5. What do you do if you dislike another crew member?
6. What do you do for fun?
7. Do you sleep in a bed? Or do you just "bob"?
8. What kind of clothes do you wear? Is it hot or cold?
9. Have you ever seen a balloon in space?
10. What kind of training do you need before you can live on the I.S.S?
11. Are you ever worried that the I.S.S will go out of orbit and crash?
12. Have there ever been any pets in space?
13. How can you tell if its night or day in space?
14. What do you do with all your waste and garbage?
15. When you go outside for a space walk what do you wear and how long does
it take to get ready?
16. Are there any long term health affects from being in space - for
example, is the life expectancy of astronauts lower after they have been in
space for a long period of time?

ARISS offers an opportunity for schoolchildren and students to experience
the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers
onboard the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities
see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize
youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. 

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman

http://www.ariss-eu.org

Un rendez-vous ARISS est prévu pour l'Italie en ce jeudi 18 décembre. Ca tombe bien, je serai encore à la maison vers 13h10 et j'essayerai d'enregistrer ce nouveau contact. Ci-dessous le communiqué officiel avec les questions.

73's Jean-Luc

ARISS CONTACT PLANNED WITH SCHOOL IN PORTO SANT'ELPIDIO, ITALY

An International Space Station Expedition 18 ARISS school contact has been
planned with participants at Scuola Elementare Faleriense "Gianni Rodari",
Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy on 18 December. The event is scheduled to begin
at approximately 1210 UTC, which is 13.10 CEWT.

The contact will be a direct between stations OR4ISS and I6KZR. The contact
should be audible over most of Europe. Interested parties are invited to
listen in on the 145.800 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to
conduct the conversation in English. 

The school "Gianni Rodari" is located in Porto Sant'Elpidio, a small town
in Southern Italy. It is situated on the shore of the Adriatic Sea, 50 km
away from Ancona and 30 km from the beautiful city of San Benedetto del
Tronto. "Gianni Rodari" is a big primary school including a kindergarten.
The school offers practical courses and projects such as the radio contact
with the International Space Station.

Another important and exciting project for the pupils is the construction
and test of the "coherer", the primitive radio signal detector. It was
invented by Temistocle Calzecchi Onesti, who demonstrated in experiments in
1884 through 1886 that iron filings contained in an insulating tube will
conduct an electrical current under the action of an electromagnetic wave.
This discovery was important for the later work of Sir Oliver Lodge,
Edouard Branly and Guglielmo Marconi in the development of the radio.
Onesti lived in Monterubbiano, a small village near the city of Porto
Sant'Elpidio.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

1. How are you?
2. What's your name and how old are you?
3. How long are you already onboard the ISS on this mission?
4. What do you feel during takeoff?
5. Are you afraid of anything during your stay onboard the ISS?
6. When did you decide to become an astronaut?
7. Did you have good marks at school?
8. What do you see right now when you look through the window of your
spaceship?
9. What exactly is a black hole?
10. Do you see any planet from the spaceship?
11. What does the spaceship inside look like?
12. Is it your first time in the spaceship?
13. What is the total size of the spaceship?
14. Do you sleep in a bed with sheets and blanket?
15. What do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
16. How many hours do you sleep per day? Do you sleep well?
17. What's your daily routine onboard up there?
18. Are you bored sometimes?
19. Are you homesick? What do you do when you feel like that?
20. Have you children?
21. Is it very hard living without gravity?

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the
participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA,
and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating
countries.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of
Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the
International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see,
first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize
youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. 

73
Gaston Bertels - ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman

www.ariss-eu.org

Demain mardi 7 octobre, si tout se passe bien, vous pourrez entendre les réponses de Gregory Chamitoff KD5PKZ entre 13h29 et 13h39 sur 145.800 Mhz. L'astronaute utilisera l'indicatif OR4ISS depuis la station spatiale internationale.

Ci-dessous le communiqué ARISS Europe.

October 5, 2008

ARISS CONTACT PLANNED WITH SCHOOL IN CONVERSANO, ITALY

An International Space Station Expedition 17 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at Scuola Media Statale  Donato Forlani, Conversano, Italy on 07 October. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:29 UTC, which is 13:29 local time.

The contact will be a direct contact between stations OR4ISS and IZ7MKW. The contact should be audible over Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

The Scuola media D. Forlani is a middle school in the suburb of Conversano, a small town located 30km from Bari in South-east Italy

The school has 30 classrooms and various laboratories, including an astronomy lab. About 250 pupils attend the school, aged from 11 to 14. Extracurricular activities include English conversation, sport, theatre, the environment and other research activities.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. What is the most ambitious spatial project for the future?
2. What do you see at the moment when you are looking outside the ISS?
3. How does it feel to be in space?
4. Is it difficult to get used to zero gravity?
5. What do you think about extraterrestrial life in the universe?
6. How many years ago did you start your career as astronaut?
7. What studies are necessary to become an astronaut?
8. Where does the electric power come from on board the ISS?
9. Was it your childhood dream to become an astronaut?
10. At what age did you discover your passion for space?
11. What do you miss most from Earth during the mission?
12. How long can a human being stay in orbit without any physical problems?
13. What happens if an astronaut gets seriously ill in space?
14. What do you think about future projects of living on the moon?
15. What systems do you use for the communication to the Earth?
16. Is there any danger for the ISS module to be hit by Space debris?
17. How are the daily astronauts duties organized on board the ISS?
18. What kind of optical instruments have you on board to watch the space?
19. What are the main scientific experiments during Expedition 17?
20. What are the minimum and maximum temperatures inside and outside the ISS?

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station.  Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning.  See http://www.ariss-eu.org/schoolcontacts.htm

73
Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman

DERNIERE MINUTE

October 7, 2008

ARISS CONTACT, PLANNED WITH SCHOOL IN CONVERSANO, ABORTED

The radio contact could not be established. Astronaut Gregory Chamitoff reported an issue with the onboard radio.

This ARISS school contact is rescheduled to begin at approximately 09:37 UTC, which is 10:37 local time, tuesday the 28th of October. The onboard station OR4ISS will be operated by Mike Fincke KE5AIT.