Category: Weekly Reports

Feb 13-14: Three ARISS-US Education Committee members gave presentations at the online 2021 Orlando HamCation.  Melissa Pore and two of her high school students presented to 110 Zoom viewers on using ARISS and amateur radio in space to enhance school science and engineering classes. Another 103 people viewed the recording. Alan Johnston’s presentation included two … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 2/22/2021

February 9: Students at Sterling Middle School in Ashburn, VA had a successful ARISS radio contact with Shannon Walker; students were tied in from home through the ARISS ground station in Belgium. Walker answered 20 student questions as 350 viewers watched a YouTube livestream connection; it is at: https://youtu.be/qVhBweqjCo4.  Within two days, another 1,723 people had viewed … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 2/15/2021

January 28: An ARISS radio contact for students at Amur State University in Blagoveshchensk, Russia was successful. Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov supported the contact and first year students of the university’s space training classes asked him questions. Students’ recent activities had included downloading SSTV images downlinked by cosmonauts on the ISS in December. The ARISS contact … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 2/8/2021

January 21: The Sea Road School in Kennebunk, part of Maine Regional School Unit 21, hosted a successful ARISS contact. Students from six Kennebunk area schools were at home connected online through an ARISS ham relay ground station in Italy. They enjoyed a conversation with Mike Hopkins who answered 20 questions. The schools besides Sea … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 2/1/2021

January 13: The Shigagakuen Junior & Senior High School in Higashioumi, Japan hosted an ARISS contact for students to take part in a Q&A session with Shannon Walker. On site were 60 people social distancing and the school livestreamed the action for more students to participant. The online audience totaled 355. The event began with … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 01/25/2021

January 11: ARISS-US Education Committee member Neil Rapp won the national 2021 Carole Perry Educator of the Year Award. For 19 years, he has sponsored the Bloomington High School South Ham Radio Club while teaching science at this school in Bloomington, IN. In past years, he garnered the ARRL Professional Educator of the Year Award and … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 01/18/2021

January 6:  Students from 25 schools on a number of Galapagos Islands were involved in an ARISS contact hosted by the Oswaldo Guayasamín School of Basic Education in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador. Victor Glover answered 11 questions from the schools’ students who were joined in online from home through an ARISS ground station … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 01/11/2021

December 15:  The Oregon Charter Academy in Mill City, OR, held its ARISS radio contact for students to talk to Shannon Walker.  She answered 20 of their questions. Students at home were connected to the radio contact through ARISS Multi-point Telebridge Via Amateur Radio. ARISS’s volunteer at his ham station in Queensland, Australia relayed the … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 01/04/2021

November 12: The ISS National Laboratory compiled a 44-page report called 20 Years of Student Experiments on the ISS.  The report highlighted ARISS in a number of different sections.  In the first few pages, the introduction section titled “Scope of this Study” calls out ARISS, stating it was one of the very first operational experiments. … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 11/30/2020

September 2: Chris Cassidy installed and set up the first element of the ARISS Next Generation Radio System–the Interoperable Radio System (IORS)–in the ISS Columbus module. The IORS is now in operation and consists of the MultiVoltage Power Supply, a specially modified JVC Kenwood transceiver, and associated cables. The ARISS team spent five years developing … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/7/2020