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Written by Gaston Bertels - ON4WF - ARISS Chairman
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Monday, 14 December 2009 15:05 |
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 On 3 February 2006, cosmonaut Valery Ivanovich Tokarev hand launched the Amateur Radio satellite SuitSat-1 from the ISS during an EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity = Spacewalk). SuitSat-1 was a very special Amateur Radio satellite. A discarded Russian ORLAN Space Suit (in Russian a "Skafander") was equipped with an Amateur Radio transmitter, which transmitted telemetry and greetings from youngsters to the youth of the world in several languages. In 2010, an Amateur Radio satellite will once more be hand launched from the International Space Station. It will be called ARISSat-1.
ARISSat-1 will again transmit messages recorded by students. Moreover, teachers and students are invited to fly a file aboard this amateur radio satellite. The ARISSat-1 Team wishes to include on our new satellite a memory stick of files prepared by students. This should be a jpg or pdf of things the student has prepared such as a paper or a study done on a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) topic, a drawing of space craft or a schematic, a journal kept on a STEM topic, a story or news article about a STEM subject, a photo of the class doing a hands-on STEM activity -- that type of thing.
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Written by Gaston Bertels - ON4WF
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 10:12 |
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An Expedition 21 ARISS school contact is planned with participants at Istituto Comprensivo di Govone –Scuola Secondaria di primo grado “Nino Costa” di Priocca, Priocca, Cuneo, Italy. Two Junior High schools - "Nino Costa" of Priocca and "T.L. Dalmasso" of Govone - are integral part of the Comprehensive School of Govone in the province of Cuneo. The municipal territories of the Comprehensive School of Govone are situated on the left bank of the river Tanaro. This district, which is hilly country, is called "Roero" and it is famous for its fine wines. The inhabitants live mostly in the plain where the schools are located. The old town centre with the townhall is uphill.
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Written by ON4WF
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Friday, 04 December 2009 10:38 |
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An Expedition 21 ARISS school contact is planned with participants at Scuola primaria (2 Circolo Didattico), Noicattaro, Bari, Italy. This school is a public primary school named after Alcide De Gasperi. It is attended by about 700 pupils, aged 6 - 11 years. In addition to the main programme, the school offers optional activities in the afternoon; these cover English language, music, sport, theatre, science, ecology and other artistic and research activities. De Gasperi school organizes the ARISS contact in the frame of the commemorations of the centenarian of Guglielmo Marconi's Nobel prize.
The contact site is located at the Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza, an initiative of the Bari University. Cittadella Mediterranea della Scienza is a permanent structure for the promotion of scientific culture and related technologies. This direct radio contact is scheduled on Saturday 12 December 2009 at 09:11 UTC, which is 10:11 CEWT. Downlink signals will be audible over Europe on 145.800MHz FM. The space talk will be conducted in English. The space talk will be webcast on: http://www.cittadellamediterraneadellascienza.it
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Written by Gaston Bertels ON4WF
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Monday, 23 November 2009 11:14 |
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An Expedition 20 ARISS school contact is planned with participants at KCST, Sint-Truiden, Belgium.
“Katholieke Centrumscholen Sint-Truiden” (KCST) is a secondary school in Sint-Truiden (a city in Belgium). Student population of 1130 is spread across three campuses according to their age group (three levels of 2 forms each.) Every campus is situated in the heart of the city and accommodates both pupils taking general education (ASO) and a smaller amount taking technical courses (TSO) and vocational training (BSO).
The school policy has always been to stimulate scientific interest, both through school subjects, extracurricular activities (such as school trips, e.g. visits to the Planetarium in Genk) and the participation in scientific competitions (known as “Olympiads”) in the field of Geography, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Many of our students go on to higher education in sciences and establish a professional career in academics or scientific research.
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Written by Gaston Bertels - ON4WF
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Monday, 23 November 2009 10:57 |
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An Expedition 20 ARISS school contact is planned with participants at Don Bosco Institute in Brussels, Belgium. Don Bosco Institute is a secondary industrial technical school located at Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (Brussels) in Belgium. This school has about 750 students of different nationalities, 13-19 old. The school offers studies in carpentry, electricity, mechanics, computing, printing and electronics. The radio contact is scheduled on Thursday November 26 at about 12:49 UTC, which is 13:49 CEWT.
Note: if the STS-129 Shuttle mission is extended by one day, the present planning of this ARISS school contact would be cancelled or modified.
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