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July 22, 2025: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is pleased to announce the US schools/host organizations newly selected for 2026 ARISS contacts. A total of 4 of the submitted proposals during the recent proposal window have been accepted to move forward in the processes of planning to host a scheduled amateur radio … Continue reading ARISS News Release No. 25-40 Four US Schools/Organizations Moved Forward in ARISS Selection Process

New Proposal Window is July 9th, 2025 – August 29th, 2025 July 10, 2025 --- The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that … Continue reading ARISS News Release No. 25-38 Message to US Educators Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Contact Opportunity Call for Proposals

June 30, 2025—NASA has confirmed five of the six expected ham radio contacts for theAxiom Space Ax-4 crew onboard the International Space Station, starting July 3. Each of thethree first-time astronauts—Shubhanshu Shukla (VU2TNI), Sławosz UznańskiWiśniewski (SQ7AS) and Tibor Kapu (HA5TRO)—is planning to have two 10-minutecontacts with communities in their home countries during the remainder of … Continue reading Axiom-4 Amateur Radio Contacts Set to Begin July 3rd

June 26, 2025 - An ARISS SSTV event will begin no earlier than July 14 with the expectation that the event will run through the weekend into the beginning of the following week.  This is all subject to AX-4 schedule and other operational considerations.  The subject will be the 50th anniversary of the ASTP and … Continue reading SSTV  shaping up for July event

The all-Ham Ax-4 crew is en route to the International Space Station following a 2:31 am eastern time launch today (June 25) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Ax-4 Launch Credit: SpaceX SpaceX expects to dock the Dragon module—which Ax-4 Mission Commander Peggy Whitson (KC5ZTD) has named “Grace”—with the ISS at … Continue reading Ax-4 Hams En Route to ISS

ARISS will once again play a key role in space outreach when the Ax-4 mission launches tothe International Space Station in the next few days with another all-ham crew, led byrecord-setting Commander Peggy Whitson (KC5ZTD). AX-4 Crew: Kapu, Shukla, Whitson, Uznański-Wiśniewski Credit: Axiom Space Whitson, who has logged more time in space than any other … Continue reading All Hams Onboard for Axiom-4 Mission