ARISS-USA is now the US-based organization connecting students with astronauts in space. Towson, Maryland –June 4, 2020 In late May, the USA team of the ARISS International working group became an incorporated non-profit entity in the state of Maryland, officially becoming ARISS-USA. This move allows ARISS-USA to work as an independent organization, soliciting grants and donations. … Continue reading Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Team in the United States Creates a New Organization: ARISS-USA
Message to US Educators
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 01/18/2021
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
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 01/11/2021
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
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 01/04/2021
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
ARISS Slow Scan TV Event, Dec. 24 – 31, 2020
An ARISS Slow Scan TV (SSTV) event is scheduled from the International Space Station (ISS) for late December. This will be a special SSTV event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ARISS. We will be using PD-120. The event is scheduled to begin on December 24 and continue through December 31. Dates are subject to … Continue reading ARISS Slow Scan TV Event, Dec. 24 – 31, 2020
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 11/30/2020
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
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/7/2020
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