September 5: The Colegio Tarbut, Olivos in Buenos Aires, Argentina hosted an ARISS contact with Kjell Lindgren who answered 16 questions. An audience of 150 students, 14 educators, the entire Galapagos Islands’ school board, and 25 community members watched. The Department of Communication filmed the action and want to create a special show. The staff … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/12/2022
Happy Launch Anniversary, ARISS Hardware Team!!
September 8, 2022--On September 8, 2000, 22 years ago today, the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, starting the STS-106 Space Shuttle mission. On-board this mission was the ARISS Ericsson radio, a packet module/power supply and other hardware that became our first operational radio system on ISS. Just two months … Continue reading Happy Launch Anniversary, ARISS Hardware Team!!
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/5/2022
August 24: Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, a temporary home for children needing short- or long-term care in the Nashville, TN area, hosted an ARISS contact. Four young patients asked questions of Kjell Lindgren while the in-house TV studio broadcasted the actions of 14 students and 4 teachers to 343 patients in hospital rooms. Members … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/5/2022
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/29/2022
August 18: The Cambridge Amateur Radio Club partnered with the Idea Exchange program at the Cambridge Public Library in Ontario, Canada to host an ARISS contact with Kjell Lindgren. An audience of 185 people watched at the outdoor contact site while Lindgren answered 9 student questions. 155 others watched via a live steam, and within a … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/29/2022
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/22/2022
August 16: Last week’s report described the Isle of Thanet online news’ feature story on eight-year-old Isabella who, with help from her father, talked via his ham radio station with Kjell Lindgren using the ARISS radio. Since then, word of her radio contact spread around the world. The BBC Southeast prepared and broadcasted a video … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/22/2022
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/15/2022
August 10: Summer in or near Vestal, NY means hundreds of campers between grades 2 and 12 are enjoying Kopernik Observatory and Science Center’s weekly STEM camps. This summer’s boys and girls experienced a myriad of science activities with the help of School Programs Coordinator and Science Teacher for Kopernik, Tish Bresee, a NASA Solar … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/15/2022
Simultaneous Operations of APRS and Voice Repeater now a Reality on ISS
August 12, 2022—ARISS is pleased to announce that starting yesterday, August 11, simultaneous operations of the ARISS Voice Repeater and digital APRS communications on the International Space Station (ISS) is now a reality. Current ARISS operations include voice repeater transmissions with the JVC Kenwood D710GA in the Columbus module and APRS packet operation from an … Continue reading Simultaneous Operations of APRS and Voice Repeater now a Reality on ISS
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/8/2022
July 28: Seven Challenger Learning Center (CLC) locales hosted 2022 summer camp students at these learning institutions to spark interest in STEM. Youth at these seven CLCs spoke with Bob Hines during an ARISS radio contact; he answered 18 questions. Eight-year-old Libby, according to a WABI-TV reporter in Bangor, said, “I’ve always wanted to be … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/8/2022
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/1/2022
July 21: Kitaogura Elementary School in Uji, Japan, with 207 students, celebrated its 50-year anniversary by planning lessons for, and hosting, an ARISS contact. For their exciting radio contact with Kjell Lindgren, an audience of 70 watched the youth as he answered 20 of their questions. Reporters from five newspapers came to the event. A video … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/1/2022
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 7/25/2022
July 11-15: ARISS Director of Education Kathy Lamont and ARISS educator Kelly Cammarano gave short talks about ARISS on day two of a professional development seminar for educators. They explained a little about the ARISS program, resources on ARISS’ web pages for educators, the ARISS Education Proposal, and the timeframe that ARISS will open the … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 7/25/2022