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 livestreamed the event on Instagram and garnered 1,000 viewers; 224 more people watched the recording. 25 Galapagos Islands schools were involved with the event and STEM lessons. Radio Club Argentino supported the ARISS radio contact and provided an audio recording of the action on Facebook for 142 viewers. The staff spent 2 years preparing students for this day, having developed a special curriculum covering studies of the Earth, space exploration history, space station life, satellites, and radio communications. Students also enjoyed competing in a Hackathon. The ARISS contact was part of the school celebration of 61 years of educating students in kindergarten through secondary grades.
September 1: ARISS Technical Mentor Fred Kemmerer presented two sessions at the NASA STEM Better Together 2022 gathering at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. The NASA Office of STEM Engagement hosted the workshops. The event was for educators, particularly those who had won grants, some sponsored by NASA’s Minority University Research & Education Project. Fred’s talk covered all aspects of ARISS education; he stated, “Educators asked many good questions and showed high interest in ARISS.” His charts included a section on educator Drew Deskur’s recent ARISS contact. Drew, a winner of a TEAM II Community Anchor Award for his new project targeting inner-city Binghamton (NY) and rural central New York schools, had come to the conference and this presentation. He related: “Multiple people who saw my photo in Fred’s charts waylaid me through the day to ask about ARISS and to trade e-addresses. I got to talk to Ricky Arnold and mentioned ARISS; Ricky said ARISS was one of the highlights of his weeks when he was on the ISS.” ARISS educator Melissa Pore, invited by NASA OSTEM to network with attendees, reported that she talked to many educators about her students and ARISS and NASA STEM programs. ARISS thanks SCaN for suggesting a presentation could be given at this event.
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 later, on November 13, 2000, the Expedition-1 crew installed this hardware system in the Zarya (FGB module) and operated it for the first time.
On behalf of the international ARISS team, I want to extend our heartiest of congratulations to all in the hardware team that made this radio system a reality!
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 of Vanderbilt University Amateur Radio Club and Williamson County Amateur Radio Group handled the ham radio station for the contact and had installed the antenna on the roof. Just before the contact ended, Lindgren told listeners: “Thank you for letting me be a part of your day, and thank you for facilitating this contact.” Staff had set up learning stations for all hospital patients to explore hands-on activities, working with models of planets and hands-on sound wave activities. Kids saw a real Moon rock and got space-related items, thanks to Marshall Space Flight Center. One child’s mother related her son’s passion for space; “That’s all he wants to talk about and create about, so this is amazing that in the hospital, he experiences this.” The studio program manager declared, “’Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ has a whole new meaning for us after a touch with a world many miles away. Thanks goes to NASA, ARISS, area ham radio operators, Ryan Seacrest Foundation, and the hospital school program.” Channel 5 WTVF prepared an online report, which is at https://www.newschannel5.com/news/cosmic-conversation-patients-at-vandy-childrens-hospital-talk-to-astronaut-orbiting-earth. The Vanderbilt University Medical Center web pages featured a story at: https://news.vumc.org/2022/08/31/young-patients-connect-with-international-space-station/. A teacher leads the hospital school program serving 80 students weekly, coordinates with students’ schools to continue a regular learning curriculum, and helps expand their creativity and imagination through the Ryan Seacrest Foundation’s on-site TV studio.
August 26: New England Sci-Tech (NESciTech), a STEM education center and makerspace in Natick, MA, will host an ARISS contact this fall. In preparation, the center is sponsoring a 12-month space-science program for New England girls and boys in grades 4-12. Hands-on space science workshops this summer included SciTech Rocketeers (model rockets), introductory math for modeling rocket flight, and electronic circuitry. One group of students watched a launch of their Cubes-in-Space™ project. Upcoming workshops include Air Powered Rockets, Introduction to Arduino Electronics, Amateur Radio Technician-level Classes, and Public Telescope Nights. NESciTech fostered strong ties with the New England home school community and students in several states are involved. The ARISS contact will be hosted at The Big E (exposition)—a fair that draws 60,000 to 180,000 visitors daily.
ARISS Social Media for August 2022
August ARISS Facebook Stats
ARISS Twitter followers as of August 31, 2022, totaled 17,051.
ARISS Total Facebook followers for August 31, 2022 was 7,893.
Instagram count for the end of August 2022 was 442.
YouTube subscribers on August 31, 2022 totaled 1,700.
Top Tweet for August—9,621 Impressions Tweet: ARISS now offers simultaneous operations on APRS (digital radio) and voice
Top Facebook post for August—8,205 Reaches, 662 Engagements Facebook: ARISS now offers simultaneous operations on APRS (digital radio) and voice
Outstanding Facebook Photo Post for August– 6,128 Reaches, 821 Engagements
Top Media Tweet in August–2,945 Impressions
ARISS Upcoming Events Sept 5 Colegio Tarbut, Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina ARISS contact, ARISS Canada Team
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 week, 684 people had watched a YouTube recording. Cambridge Amateur Radio Club members provided technical support for the ARISS contact. TV and newspaper reporters came to cover the action, and media hits are:
In preparation for the contact, local youth from kindergarten through sixth grade participated in a variety of STEAM activities sponsored by the Idea Exchange on subjects such as space, engineering, and various sciences.
August 20-21: About 5,000 ham radio operators and other radio enthusiasts gathered at the 2022 ARRL Southeastern Division Convention (the 3rd largest US ham event this year) at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, AL. ARISS showcased a large booth both days supported by Frank Bauer, Janet Bauer, Dave Jordan, and Martha Muir with over 300 stopping by to talk—10% were educators and over 10% were youth. They learned about the ARISS program and several ARISS education projects in development that will allow students to interact with robots and with sensor devices on the International Space Station. Several educators learned how to submit education proposals for an ARISS contact at their school. Frank presented a forum to a crowd of 60 people and reported high interest in the ARISS 2.0 effort, ARISS education programs, Kjell Lindgren’s radio activity, and future ARISS initiatives. Booth staff said that following the forum, many people stopped to say they appreciated hearing all about ARISS and to offer a thank you for ARISS activities. Before the convention, Frank met with four American Radio Relay League (ARRL) leaders about education ideas for ARISS and ARRL to consider collaborating on at facilities such as the US Space & Rocket Center.
July 5-29: ARISS volunteer Melissa Pore presented ARISS and ARISS-related STEM activities at youth workshops during four weeks of the Washington Community Fellowship DC STEM Camps in Washington DC. She led activities for 200 campers with lessons focused on satellites and Morse code, held demonstrations about radio antennas, and used STEM lesson resources from SCaN on the Deep Space Network and from the US Naval Academy. The youth worked with some satellite models, SCaN activity booklets, and Artemis activity books. The camp was free for underserved youth age 8 to 12.
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 interview of Isabella and her father, which is posted at https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChU0oenDiD6/ and also a news item at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-62563215.amp. But that’s not all. More than 20 news services ran an item or picked up the BBC’s feature, and for instance, National Public Radio re-broadcasted her comment that she wants to be a “communications specialist” for NASA when she grows up. The list below is of URLs for some of the more major outlets’ stories.
August 18: The Cambridge Public Library and Idea Exchange in Cambridge, ON, Canada hosted a successful ARISS contact. Expect a full account about the event in next week’s report.
August 11: Cosmonaut Denis Matveev supported an ARISS contact held in the Chuvash Republic of Russia in the village of Shorshely. The village was sponsoring a festival celebrating and honoring the 60th anniversary of the first space flight by USSR pilot-cosmonaut Andrian Grigorievich Nikolaev. Participants of the radio contact included young cosmonauts of the Vostok detachment of the Shorshel Secondary School and young cosmonauts who are radio amateurs active with the children’s collective radio station Vostok-3. Chuvasia radio amateur operators set up a special ham radio event for the festival, talking over the airwaves to worldwide hams.
August 11: To the delight of many, ARISS modes on the ISS have expanded to allow operations on both Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS – digital communications) and voice repeater modes at the same time. Both types of operations are very popular within the ham community. The ARISS-US and ARISS-Russia teams worked together many weeks to secure APRS operation from the Service Module following the upmass of a second Kenwood D710GA radio. Frank Bauer stated, “Simultaneous operation of ARISS APRS and the voice repeater on ISS is transformative for ARISS and represents a key element of our ARISS 2.0 initiative, providing interactive capabilities 24/7 that inspire, engage and educate youth and lifelong learners—especially life-long learning in ham radio operations.” ARISS’s news release included Frank’s thanks to ARISS-Russia’s Sergey Samburov for working hard to help make the expanded operations happen.
August 8: NASA’s online Space Station Science Highlights for the week of August 8 carried an item on the recent ARISS radio contact hosted by Kopernik Observatory and Science Center in Vestal, NY. A photo featured Bob Hines at the ARISS radio. The report described preparatory lessons on radio, electricity and space that students participated in, and how ARISS helps inspire interest in STEM-related subjects. The URL is: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/space-station-science-highlights-08aug22.
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 System Ambassador. Examples of some of the lessons included how to use a telescope, launch and track high altitude balloons, make ham radio contacts, all with a tie to ARISS and what it’s like being an astronaut on the ISS. This past week’s camp, “Welcome Aboard the ISS,” saw 19 campers thrilled by the chance to ask Bob Hines a question; he replied to 19. An excited gathering of 60 attendees at the Center, including youth from a previous week’s camp (“Secrets of Code” on coding, Morse code, and electrical circuits) watched the activity. TV stations and a cable station (WIVT, WICZ, WBCH) covered the ARISS contact. The livestream garnered 110 viewers—youth who’d been at earlier camps, along with the general public. Within 48 hours, 308 people had watched a recording. The URL (begin at 9 minutes) is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OadnQ3UX_s. Two URLs for media hits are:
August 8: A week-long workshop called Summer Space School was held at the Space Research Institute, the space science studies department at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia. Organizers received support from the Roscosmos State Corporation. Study areas for youth coming from many locales ranged from astronomy and astrophysics to the origin of the Universe and exoplanets. Students could choose subjects tied to astronautics, space communications and remote sensing, space medicine and biology, and scientific journalism. They engaged in a simulated trip to, and landing on, Mars and planned a settlement in which to live and do scientific research. On one day of the space school week, 70 students participated in a successful ARISS contact with Sergey Korsakov. They had studied the About Gagarin from Space set of lessons led by the ARISS-Russia team.
August 8: The Isle of Thanet News, an online UK news service featured Isabella, an eight year old from Broadstairs. Her father, a ham operator was lucky late one night to hear Kjell Lindgren making radio contacts on the ARISS radio in the ISS with ham operators. Matt’s ham license allows him to help others use his radio under his direction. He woke his daughter to try for a short chat with Lindgren, and she snagged him. Isabella said: “It was amazing to contact the ISS and it made my night and day. I was elated when I heard an astronaut on the ISS. After we spoke on the radio, NASA contacted us for a picture of me, which they sent to Astronaut Kjell and to my surprise, Kjell sent me back an image of my picture on his iPad floating in the ISS!” The article’s URL is: https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2022/08/10/broadstairs-eight-year-old-to-feature-on-nasa-website-after-radio-chat-with-iss-astronaut/. NASA plans to run a story about this on its web pages. On August 16, a British Broadcasting Company News reporter interviewed Isabella, and the segment should air soon.
August 10: The ARISS-Russia team conducted an ARISS radio contact at the Ufa State Aviation Technical University in Ufa, Russia. The 100 youth, ages 14 to 17, came from various regions of Russia. The ARISS-Russia team taught them the About Gagarin From Space lessons. Oleg Artemiev supported the radio contact.
August 2: ARISS educator Diane Warner gave a talk about ARISS and the ISS to a group of Lancaster, OH community members who attended a presentation given by her club, the All Terrain Amateur Radio Association. The club’s intent was to introduce the community to amateur radio and invite them to sign up for an upcoming amateur radio license class.
August 6-7: At the 2022 ARRL Pacific Northwest DX Convention in Spokane, WA, ARRL-ARISS Board Committee Chair Mark Tharp set up a display table sporting ARISS’ roll-up banner, handouts, and business cards. 140 attendees came from 12 states and British Columbia, and they took home all but a few of the ARISS business cards. This annual convention features programs of interest to ham radio operators who enjoy making radio contacts with hams in countries located in very remote parts of the globe.
ARISS Upcoming Events Aug 18 Cambridge Public Library & Idea Exchange, Cambridge ON ARISS contact, ARISS Canada Team
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 identical radio in the Service Module (Zvezda). Packet operations are on 145.825 MHz.
The ARISS Russia and USA teams have been working for several weeks to prepare the Service Module radio for APRS operations. ARISS Russia team member Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, led the effort, working with Russian mission controllers and the on-board ISS cosmonauts to configure the Service Module radio for APRS ops. On August 11, final checkouts were completed and the APRS packet mode was switched on for amateur radio use.
ARISS-International Chair Frank Bauer, KA3HDO states, “Simultaneous operation of APRS and the voice repeater on ISS is transformative for ARISS and represents a key element of our ARISS 2.0 initiative, providing a interactive capabilities 24/7 that inspire, engage and educate youth and lifelong learners—especially life-long learning in ham radio operations.” Bauer continues, “Our heartfelt thanks to Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, for making this crucial ARISS 2.0 initiative become a reality.”
The Columbus Module radio uses the callsign NA1SS and the new Service Module radio uses RS0ISS. Aside from the callsigns, the radios are identical and packet operations are the same as before. You can use RS0ISS, ARISS, or APRSAT as the packet path. Also, both radios are expected to be on full time, except during educational contacts, EVAs, and dockings or undockings.
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 an astronaut and talk to one at least one time and this is a once in a lifetime experience.” 364 campers and community members watched the action at the seven sites or via the livestream. WCSH-TV of Bangor, ME, quoted Challenger Learning Center of Maine’s director Sarah Raymond-Boyan: [This is] “that spark to get them excited in science whether it’s through space or through something else” [that aids them] “just to know that it could be them up there someday.” Staff at the Challenger Learning Center national office in Washington DC set up the livestream and posted a very nice blog so viewers could access the video. After 7 days, 3,443 people had viewed the recording. See: https://www.challenger.org/2022/07/29/live-conversation-with-astronaut-bob-hines-aboard-the-international-space-station/. In addition to many kinds of STEM lessons, some CLCs invited ham radio operators to show youth different aspects of radio and communications, talk about codes, and try sending Morse code characters, which the CLC declared “a big hit!” CLC hosts were:
Buehler Challenger & Learning Center-Paramus NJ
Challenger Learning Center of Maine-Bangor ME
Challenger Learning Center-Louisville KY
Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana, Hammond IN
Town of Ramapo Challenger Learning Center, Ramapo NY
Challenger Learning Center of Twin Tier Region, Allegany NY and
Challenger Learning Center at the Scobee Education Center, San Antonio College, San Antonio TX.
August 3: The Swiss Guide and Scout Movement in Bern, Switzerland hosted an ARISS contact for scouts participating in the Swiss National Scout Jamboree in the Goms Valley. The 35,000 male and female scouts ranged in age from 7 to 28. During the ARISS radio contact, Samantha Cristoforetti replied to 17 scouts’ questions and spoke in English, French, Italian and German. The video is at: https://youtu.be/NvqCSISnTvU. Close to 2,000 people watched live—and in two days’ time, views of the recording skyrocketed to 6,959! During the two-week event, youth participated in various STEM activities such as space communication technology projects, demos of HF, VHF, and UHF ham radio band activities, and making radio contacts—including Earth-Moon-Earth radio contacts—communicating with another ham operator by bouncing your radio signal off the Moon (as a passive reflector) to another ham operator.
July 30: NASA’s 2022 International Space Station Benefits for Humanity publication was released while the ARISS team was exhibiting at the ISS R & D Conference in Washington, DC. One of the articles recognized ARISS as one of the groups “Bringing Humanity Along for the Ride.” ARISS feels very honored by this recognition. NASA posted the article on its web site, also, along with a fast-action video summarizing the groups who “bring humanity along.” The posting is at: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/benefits/direct-link-to-space.
July 25-29: ARISS educator Gina Kwid from Eagle, ID attended The Space Age on the Space Coast professional development workshops at the Astronauts Memorial Foundation Center for Science Education in the Kennedy Visitors Center at Cape Canaveral, FL. 35 K-12 educators interacted with education specialists, historians, astronauts, and engineers. In addition to learning many things, Gina gave a talk about ARISS. The workshops (made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks Grant Program and the National Council for History Education) are meant to help educators shape classrooms that engage students in historical inquiry of the Space Age era. Workshop sponsors wrote: [Educators came to] “the starting point for America’s exploration of the universe” to investigate “the intersection of race, gender, politics, technology, and the earth as a living system.”
July 30: The ARISS-Russia team conducted a session of lessons called “About Gagarin From Space” with 40 youth in Almetyevsk in Tatarstan, Russia. The successful contact was supported by crew member Sergei Korsakov.
ARISS Social Media
July 2022–Top ARISS Facebook Reach and Top ARISS Tweet
Facebook post on releasing (during an EVA) 10 radio satellites built by ARISS university students in Russia Twitter post on ARISS contact at Kitaogura Elementary School in Uji, Japan
As of July 31, 2022, slight gains were made over last month on every ARISS social media platform; total followers were:
ARISS Twitter—16,957
ARISS Facebook—7,758
ARISS Instagram—435
ARISS YouTube—1.7k
July 2022 Facebook
ARISS Upcoming Events Aug 8 Space Research Institute-Russian Academy of Sciences summer school, Moscow Ru ARISS contact, ARISS Russia Team Aug 10 Ufa State Aviation Tech University, Ufa Russia ARISS contact, ARISS Russia Team Aug 10 Kopernik Observatory & Science Center, Vestal, NY ARISS contact, ARISS US Team
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 recording for public viewing is at: http://www.ariss.jp/8n350k/IMG_5634.MP4. Students spent several months on a variety of lessons preparing for the event. For fifth graders interested in amateur radio, members of the KANSAI ARISS Project and the Japan Amateur Radio League-Kyoto Club mentored the girls and boys in radio communications protocol and making radio contacts over the airwaves.
July 25-28: ARISS team members Frank Bauer, Dave Taylor, and Kelly Cammarano represented ARISS at the ISS R&D Conference in Washington DC, setting up and staffing an exhibit area. Other ARISS team members, Ana Guzman, Randy Berger, and Melissa Pore helped at the booth for portions of the days. They discussed ARISS with an estimated 300 individuals. During daytime and evening receptions, Frank networked with many space industry people and was happy to talk about ARISS and potential future activity.
June 25: The All Terrain Amateur Radio Association set up a Field Day exhibit in a city park in Lancaster, OH; the display touted ARISS, the club, and amateur radio. Field Day is an exercise for ham radio operators to practice emergency communications skills in places without commercial power. Over 50 people came to the Field Day and saw the poster board. A gentleman who leads a youth group with a STEM focus talked at length to ARISS educator Diane Warner about ARISS contacts. The American Radio Relay League Section Manager (an official at the state level) drove a bit over an hour to come to the Field Day event and discussed the successes of a recent ARISS school contact that was sponsored at Bellefontaine, OH.
ARISS Upcoming Events July 30 Youth in Almetyevsk, Tatarstan, Russia ARISS contact, ARISS Russia Team July 30 State Aviation Technical University, Ufa, Russia ARISS contact, ARISS Russia Team Aug 3 Swiss Guide & Scout Movement, Bern, Switzerland ARISS contact, ARISS Europe Team
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 next window to accept proposals. The American Radio Relay League, one of ARISS’ sponsors, put on the week-long seminar in Newington, CT for eight educators from around the US. They did hands-on lessons on satellite communications; sensors and an Arduino board—programming sensors on a breadboard to collect and transmit data to be shared by APRS (automatic packet reporting system); and working with that data—how to plot and analyze it. The women felt they could take many of the hands-on STEM lessons back to their classrooms. Kathy, from Virginia, and Kelly, from California, have each hosted ARISS contacts in the past at their schools.
July 19-22: The 2022 ARISS-International working group held its annual meeting (online) of world ARISS Officers, ARISS Delegates, and ARISS volunteers. 34 of the team attended. Areas represented by team members were Australia, Japan, Canada, the US, and many countries in Europe. Day 1 presentations included an overview of the last 12 months of ARISS’ successes such as great outcomes from lessons done with US and European students, and some of ARISS’ planning and activities leading to future major projects. Day 2 and Day 3 topics focused on three main areas that define ARISS’ initiatives dealing with education, operations, and development. An update was shared on all education programs funded by grants won in 2021, such as the development of hands-on electronic kits that enhance the introducing of electronics in the classroom. Progress was reported on the ARISS *STAR* program where students will engage in tele-robotics and using ham radio to control the robots. A talk on operations covered several ARISS activities such as the very popular Slow Scan TV (SSTV—picture links), events that educators report have proven to spark students’ interest in ISS operations. The last day of the meeting included future plans and activities to consider and the 2023 meeting.
July 21: During a spacewalk, Oleg Artemyev deployed 10 satellites on behalf of the ARISS-Russia team. Sergey Samburov, leader of the team, monitored the deployment from Russia’s Mission Control area. Students at South West State University (SWSU) in Kursk built eight of the satellites and students at Ryazan State Radio Engineering University built two of the satellites. Details about the satellites were in an earlier weekly report.
July 21: ARISS learned about viewer numbers of the “Amateur Space Radio” episode of Houston, We Have a Podcast, which first aired on July 7. The podcast featured Courtney Black, of the ISS National Lab, talking about her past experience as a teacher who hosted an ARISS contact. Metrics received are:
Apple Podcasts—garnered 1,600 unique listeners
SoundCloud—received 350 plays and
Google got 250 plays.
July 23: An ARISS contact was hosted for people taking part in the Celebration of the frigate “Nadezhda,” in Vladivostok, Russia. Listeners learned about ARISS and heard cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev support the ARISS radio contact. The ARISS-Russia team coordinated the activity.
ARISS Upcoming Events
July 28: Buehler Challenger & Science Center, Paramus NJ ARISS contact, ARISS-US team
