Message to US Educators

January 3: ARISS-International Chair Frank Bauer gave a presentation during the bi-weekly Ham Radio Crash Course – HamNation online ham radio podcast. He explained many exciting aspects of the upcoming 40th Anniversary Conference: Celebrating the Positive Impact of Amateur Radio on Human Spaceflight to be held at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex from February 22 – 24. He expounded on the earliest history of use of ham radio on space vehicles (1983, by astronaut Owen Garriott on STS-9) and invited listeners to go to the ARISS web site to register to attend the celebration events. Frank mentioned that nearly 1,600 ARISS school radio contacts have now taken place. For the remainder of the presentation, he handled a Q & A session. Listeners totaled 356, and in 3 days’ time, 3.9K…and that will keep increasing!

January 4-5:  Last week’s report covered Harbor Creek High School’s ARISS contact; here is a happy update. An NBC TODAY Show producer had spotted a late-November article about ARISS, carried on the NASA Space Station Research web page, which included Rosalie White’s email address. The NBC producer contacted Rosalie about doing an ARISS story, and learned all about ARISS and the Harbor Creek School’s ARISS-related activities. An NBC team including Harry Smith traveled to the school the day before their ARISS contact and spent much of two days taping. NBC ran promos, then aired Harry’s 6.5-minute live segment, and offered a YouTube and social media posts. ARISS continues to collect statistics, but the average audience of TODAY Show live segments is 2.5M and around that many more people will see local NBC stations’ clips in addition to other folks viewing social posts—and ARISS’ social posts. In just 30 hours’ time, NBC’s X post had captured 37.6K views! Andreas Mogensen saw a post and re-tweeted (garnering over 5K views), adding: “Wow. How great for me to see behind the scenes of a recent ARISS radio contact.” The TODAY Show segment is at:

https://www.today.com/video/high-school-students-use-ham-radio-skills-to-contact-space-station-201408581756

January 2: NASA released its 2024 International Space Station Calendar with its outstanding photos and fascinating facts about the ISS. The final page featured a set of URLs for people to click to learn more. ARISS felt honored that when people click some of the links, they will find stories featuring, among other things, an ARISS radio contact supported by Chris Hadfield, the MarconISSta ham radio spectrum research project that ARISS partnered on, small satellites built by ARISS students at Kursk University, and an ARISS contact that involved hundreds of students networked together from 12 Central American countries.

December 27-30: An ARISS Slow Scan TV (SSTV—picture downlinks) experiment took place, resulting in many thrilled participants; they had waited since the last SSTV session in October.  The experiment offered downlinks on several days during limited passes and on a different radio frequency than usual. The event employed the ARISS voice repeater system in the Columbus Module rather than the Service Module’s SSTV system. The ARISS team declared the experiment a success; 481 unique participants downloaded and posted 992 images in the ARISS SSTV Gallery at https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/.  Of the 481 participants, 112 answered the survey saying they were educators and 28 answered that they were individual students. One participant wrote, “A great thank you for this SSTV event!”

December 29: The online ham radio news podcast Amateur Radio Newsline carried a report featuring February’s ARISS 40-year anniversary conference titled “Celebrating the Positive Impact of Amateur Radio on Human Spaceflight.”  The reporter gave a call out that ARISS wants to receive stories or videos of stories from teachers and students who engaged in an ARISS school contact—stories about the effect the radio contact made on their lives. The report ended with a quote from ARISS: “The historic 40th anniversary conference will be a retrospective of what has been accomplished and will highlight our exciting amateur radio human spaceflight plans on the horizon.”

December Social Media metrics  

ARISS social media leader Jim Reed reported December Social Media highlights:

• 3rd month in 2023 that ARISS had over 500,000 Impressions
• highest monthly 2023 engagements—20.8K Engagements (next highest had been 18.6K)
• Video leveraged for ARISS’s set of STS-9 posts—during December, 28.6K clip views & nearly 5K minutes watched across X, FB, Instagram
• YouTube Live Event of Richard Garriott—nearly 400 views and 38.2 Watch Hours
• 2023 Follower growth—terrific; added 6.2K Followers (23.6%) to our feeds

December Total Impressions and Total Interactions/Engagements

Nearly all numbers doubled from last month–      

• ARISS X – Total Impressions / Views 372,958,  Interactions / Engagements  13,881 
• ARISS Facebook – Total Impressions / Views 340,847,  Interactions / Engagements 8,446
• ARISS Total New Followers across platforms 1,120
• ARISS LinkedIn – Total Impressions 230,  Reactions 10
• ARISS YouTube – Total subscribers increased to 2,080
• ARISS Web Pages – Unique Visits 26,203, Page Views 90,193

December Top Posts

Top X post (26,711 Impressions, 166 Engagements) about NASA’s story on ARISS’ 40-Year Celebrations

Top Facebook post (70,607 Impressions, 883 Engagements) about 1983 video of Astronaut Owen Garriott explaining the STS-9 onboard ham radio station

ARISS Upcoming Events  
Potential late Jan. schedule: ARISS contacts supported by Axiom-3 crew members, ARISS-Europe Team
February 22-24, 2024: Human Spaceflight Amateur Radio: 40^th Anniversary Celebration, KSC Center for Space Education, Titusville FL—ARISS conference & gala, ARISS-I Team

December 14:  The Primary School of Zipari in the coastal town of Kos, Greece hosted an ARISS contact with Andreas Mogensen, who answered 15 students’ questions. The event, attended by 300 students and community members, had reps on hand from a national TV station and an area newspaper to cover the event.  Four students starred in a pre-contact YouTube seen by 319 people (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0-72F6roYk) and in excited voices, they described their STEM studies and their enthusiasm about talking to Mogensen. The school posted two more videos about student STEM studies, one on space travel and the ISS and one on life in space. 

December 11-12: Students still enthralled over their October ARISS contact at St Peter-in-Thanet Junior School in Broadstairs, UK, wanted to take part in a Great Britain Youth on the Air amateur radio activity. The area ham club, Hilderstone Radio Society organized two days at the school for 70 children, age 7 to 11, guiding them in using 3 portable ham radio stations. The boys and girls liked knowing their voices carried across The Channel to France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and more distant countries. They learned about tuning the radio to hear voices of ham operators and tones transmitted by Morse code, and that those tones communicated words one letter at a time. The youth gave their name, age, and a radio signal report (clarity and volume). The club awarded each student a special certificate celebrating their achievement of speaking on the air waves. The science teacher said “student enthusiasm, which was ‘off the charts’, inspired faculty to offer a new course in 2024, the Magic of Radio.”

December 11: Students of Harbor Creek School in Harborcreek, PA, engaged in an ARISS contact with Andreas Mogensen, who answered 13 questions. 500 students, teachers, and community members watched the action and also the pre-contact programing that was carried out by three students belonging to the Advanced Technology Group. They educated the audience about Mogensen’s career and space-related topics. 181 people watched the livestream and within 1 day, 930 more had watched a recording. Reporters came from MSN.com, Fox, Erie News Now, YourErie.com, RFGlobal.net, and the NBC Today Show. The latter recorded student interviews, visited the school ham radio station, and climbed a ladder to get on the roof to view the radio antennas! NBC will run a special story in early 2024. The RFGlobal.net reporter wrote that he witnessed a “goose bump moment” when students’ faces showed relief at hearing Mogensen’s voice and parents made “audible gasps followed by giving a standing ovation.” Students had been supported by the Wattsburg Wireless Association Amateur Radio Club who helped youth and parents learn about space technologies and satellite communications.

December 7:  The ARISS team planned and hosted a special YouTube webinar of Space Flight Participant Richard Garriott. Frank Bauer interviewed Richard about his father, Owen Garriott, who in 1983 was the first astronaut to take ham radio on a space vehicle. ARISS set up the webinar as one of many events that honor the impact of 40 years of ham radio on spacecraft. After NASA had agreed to Owen using the radio, it allowed many people to talk with an orbiting crew member instead of only Mission Control or a head of state. Bauer asked Richard to describe some activities he did during his time on the ISS, including handling many ARISS educational radio contacts and special radio work. In 14 days, the webinar garnered 660 views. The URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys0Jjn40Y_A.

December 20: In the front pages of the January 2024 issue of the American Radio Relay League’s (ARRL) monthly journal, an article ran about Sunita Williams. It touched on aspects of her career track such as the US Naval Academy, becoming a helicopter pilot, and test pilot. She said meeting John Young influenced her to want to become a career astronaut. One third of the article was devoted to her experience carrying out ARISS contacts with students, and she said she relished those interactions. In showing her desire to make each contact very special to students, Sunita said, “It’s a skill to talk fast to get to the point [to answer their questions] and it’s important to relay the kid’s name and [say] thank you.”

December 26: ARISS announced the education organizations selected to host ARISS school contacts with ISS crew members in July through December 2024. Six organizations’ ARISS Education Proposals were chosen and the groups will proceed in creating an equipment plan for the radio station they will use to talk with their assigned astronaut. Once a school’s plan has been approved, the group will be scheduled for the ARISS contact based on ability to match with NASA crew schedule opportunities. 

ARISS Upcoming Events

Potential late Jan. schedule: ARISS contacts supported by Axiom-3 crew members, ARISS-Europe Team
February 22-24, 2024: Human Spaceflight Amateur Radio: 40^th Anniversary Celebration, KSC Center for Space Education, Titusville FL—ARISS conference & gala, ARISS-I Team

December 5: Students at Orangeburg (SC) Christian Academy enjoyed an ARISS contact with Jasmin Moghbeli who answered 20 of their questions. 322 people on site watched the contact, the school livestreamed the event on Facebook for other students and staff, and in a few days’ time, 1,000 others had viewed the recording. WLTX-TV in Columbia posted an online piece with video; the writer noted: “With aerospace being a top industry in South Carolina, educators hope this opportunity will inspire some students to become future scientists.” The WLXT URL is https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/i-mean-whats-cooler-than-talking-to-an-astronaut-orangeburg-students-s-preparing-for-space-callouth-carolina/101-4639ca16-cf04-40a8-8023-ec95f3a349f6. The Times and Democrat ran three stories. A parent wrote the school and summarized, “Everyone deserves an A.”  Faculty had injected ISS research, space science, electronics, amateur radio communications, and astronomy into the curriculum. 

December 5: ARISS team members helped students in two Virginia towns to listen in on Moghbeli talking with Orangeburg youth (above blurb).  ARISS team member Will Marchant traveled to Winchester STARBASE Academy to demo his portable ham radio equipment to students listening to Jasmin talk from space. The academy, an after-school Department of Defense (DOD) STEM program, hosts area schools to engage students in inquiry-based, hands-on STEM. That day, an area school 5^th grade teacher said Will caused her students to “intensely listen to how an astronaut can live and work on the space station.” STARBASE aims to be “the premier DOD youth outreach program for raising interest in learning and improving the knowledge and skills of our nation’s at-risk youth so that we may develop a highly educated and skilled American workforce who can meet the advance technological requirements of the Department of Defense.” The STARBASE director invited Will to come back whenever he can.  In Woodbridge, VA, ARISS educator Kathy Lamont had her Belmont Elementary School students manipulate her portable ham radio equipment to listen to Moghbeli and the Orangeburg youth. 

December 4: Two German schools, Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Schule in Eutin and Gymnasium im Loekamp in Marl worked together to share an ARISS contact with Andreas Mogensen. Students asked him 16 questions. Between both schools, 45 educators, 1,000 students, and 45 parents watched the action on site or via livestreaming. In 12 hours’ time 1,498 people had viewed the recording. Media covering the event consisted of reporters from area press, a regional radio station, and an internet broadcaster.  Both schools offered students a variety of science classesas preparation for the ARISS contact.

November 28: Primary School of Zipari Kos, in Zipari, Greece will host a December ARISS contact. Faculty reported having lead 500 students age 6 to 11 in lessons on astronomy and robots.  Students took part in amateur radio lessons and researched astronaut training. Teachers in all 20 school departments plan on activities for Space Week, scheduled for the week of the ARISS contact. Two publications featured the school in stories about the upcoming ARISS contact, the online Vimatisko.gr and the Greek City Times (https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/12/06/primary-school-in-kos-iss/).   

December 1:  ARISS thanks NASA SCaN for creating and running a set of social media posts on Facebook and X that tout the anniversary of 40 years of ham radio used on space vehicles.

December 7: The ISS National Lab wrote and posted a web story titled “ISS National Lab Highlights Scientific Research Conducted in 2023.”  ARISS was very honored that a segment of the story featured ARISS.

ARISS Upcoming Events

Dec 13: Youth in Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia—ARISS contact, ARISS-Russia Team
Dec 14: Primary School of Zipari Kos, Zipari, Greece—ARISS contact, ARISS-Europe Team
Feb 22-24, 2024: Human Spaceflight Amateur Radio: 40^th Anniversary Celebration, KSC Center for Space Education, Titusville FL—ARISS conference & gala, ARISS-I Team

November 17:  ARISS educator Cassie Zielenski and her fellow teachers began engaging Mountain View Elementary School’s 841 students in Marietta, GA, in STEM activities tied to ARISS once her school’s education proposal was accepted for an ARISS contact. K-5 students got an introduction to some lessons in the ARISS SPARKI Kit, enjoyed a scavenger hunt tied to codes such as Morse code, and will soon engage in activities using the ARISS Radio Pi equipment. ARISS educator Martha Muir and six members of the nearby North Fulton Amateur Radio League and the Cherokee Amateur Radio Club traveled to the school to judge entries in the Balloons over Mountain View STEM Parade. Students had created balloons with designs of planets, space, space vehicles, and other STEM items. Cassie and other teachers guided students with their creations in marching by the judges for a quick review. 

November 17: Andreas Mogensen supported an excellent ARISS radio contact with students at New Heights School & Learning Services in Calgary, AB, Canada. Mogensen answered all 15 of the students’ questions.  120 students in this K-12 school viewed the event via Zoom. 53 staff members watched the youth asking their questions. The ARISS radio telebridge operators handling the radio contact streamed their radio activities, garnering 103 viewers.  No media was invited by the staff due to privacy concerns for these special students. The faculty had readied the youth for their ARISS contact by facilitating a month-long “whole-school activity” program and they designated November 14-17 as Space Week. Youth engaged in special projects on sky science, space exploration, and electromagnetic energy, among other things.

November 22: The National Research Lobachevsky State University in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia held a successful ARISS radio contact for students with Konstantin Borisov. 8 students and 50 visitors and administrators attended the event.  The ARISS-Russia team supported the youth with the About Gagarin from Space lesson series and the ARISS contact.

October 8-14: ARISS educator Diane Warner planned with fellow members of the All Things Amateur Radio Association (ATARA) to bring its STEM trailer to the Fairfield County Fair in Lancaster, OH for a week. The trailer houses ARISS and other displays such as a model of the ISS, and some hands-on STEM activities. These items engaged 350 adults and 80 youth who walked in. Club members set up a tent by the trailer also, and hung posters depicting the club’s activities—two were about ARISS. Three weeks later, the club brought the STEM trailer back to the fairgrounds for Freedom’s Never Free, an annual event honoring veterans. Club members also set up their STEM and ARISS posters inside a building filled with more exhibits for veterans.    

November 25:  An ARISS contact took place with pupils from schools in the Aznakaevsky District of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Tatarstan, Russia. Students held their contact with Konstantin Borisov after engaging in the About Gagarin From Space lessons. Children with disabilities were included in the contact event. As with other ARISS-Russia sponsored ARISS contacts, this one was scheduled by Mission Control Center-Moscow.

November 29: ARISS thanks NASA for posting a superb web article on their Space Station Research page about ARISS engaging and inspiring students worldwide for STEM, for 40 years. The story begins with a young man who took part in a 2018 ARISS contact. Today, he says it showed him how rewarding STEM careers could be, and it caused him to decide to get an electrical engineering degree. The writer ran his quote: “I hope the program continues for a long time. It is so important for kids trying to figure out what you want to accomplish in life.” The URL for the article is https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/ham-radio-in-space-engaging-with-students-worldwide-for-40-years/ 

ARISS thanks NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement, also, for posting on Facebook about ARISS’ 40 years of connecting students to astronauts.                     

ARISS Social Media for November

ARISS social media leader Jim Reed reported November highlights:

• ARISS had 380,141 total impressions for November.  
• Several videos were in ARISS posts, generating more than 1,100 minutes of viewing. 

ARISS Total September-October-November Social Media Metrics:

• ARISS X – Total Impressions / Views 237,938,  Interactions / Engagements  5,943 
• ARISS Facebook – Total Impressions / Views 133,553,  Interactions / Engagements 4,027
• ARISS Total New Followers across platforms 591
• ARISS LinkedIn – Total Impressions 306,  Reactions 13
• ARISS YouTube – Total subscribers increased to 2,000
• ARISS Web Pages – Unique Visits 16,706, Page Views 50,773 

November Top Posts

Top X post (53,199 Impressions, 544 Engagements): an update on an MAI Slow Scan TV (picture downlinks) session

Top Facebook post (15,470 Impressions, 241 Engagements): video of Bob Cabana, who had supported Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment radio contacts, now retiring from NASA.

ARISS Upcoming Events  
Dec 5: Orangeburg Christian Academy, Orangeburg SC—ARISS contact, ARISS-US Team
Dec 11: Harbor Creek School, Harborcreek PA—ARISS contact, ARISS-US Team
Dec 13: Youth in Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia, ARISS contact, ARISS-Russia Team
Feb 22-24, 2024: Human Spaceflight Amateur Radio: 40^th Anniversary Celebration, KSC Center for Space Education, Titusville FL—ARISS conference & gala, ARISS- Team

October 26: ARISS educator Gina Kwid coaches the Galileo STEM Academy’s STEM Club—the school is in Eagle, ID.  She took club members, fourth and fifth graders, to the Eagle Island State Park, near the town, so students could enjoy getting outside for portable ham radio operations. They took part in a US-wide ham activity called Parks on the Air.  Before heading out from the school for the park, kids had practiced talking on the portable radios. At the park, the STEM Club’s other three sponsors, area ham operators, set up the radio station and antenna with a little help from the kids.   

October 25: ARISS enthusiast Randy Hall presented a talk during the particularly popular weekly virtual program for ham operators, Ham Radio Crash Course. He gave an update on his favorite ARISS activity, Slow Scan TV (SSTV picture links) sessions, where cosmonauts transmit images for space enthusiasts, ham operators, educators, and students to download. Live viewers of his session totaled 595, and within 8 days, another 1,705 had watched.  Mr. Hall’s talk covered the latest updates on ARISS SSTV, and his charts explained easy ways to download the images. 

November 22:  ARISS thanks NASA for posting a Science on Station story that describes ARISS activities that encourage young people worldwide to study STEM. The story said:  “These programs aim to inspire the next generation of space scientists and explorers and experts who solve problems facing people on earth.” NASA cited ARISS as the first and longest running educational outreach program on the ISS. A footnote cited the recent article written by ARISS team member Martin Diggens and others about the impact of ARISS on students. See NASA’s web posting at https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/science-on-station-november-2023/

November 15: ARISS educator Melissa Pore co-moderated a panel session at the ISS National Lab User Advisory Committee Workshop held in Washington DC. The panel session, an event before the opening of the 2023 annual meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, focused on a STEM workforce and the future of space. The panel session, titled “What does STEM workforce development mean to you?” garnered 100 attendees and other people listened virtually. They included researchers, professors, and representatives of non-profit groups and commercial space companies. Panelists led a Q&A at the end of the session where Melissa highlighted ARISS as a perfect pathway for students to be inspired about STEM careers, the pathway many of her students have followed.   

November 15: ARISS’ 40th Anniversary Conference in February 2024 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex was approved by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL—the national headquarters for ham radio operators) to be named an ARRL-sanctioned Specialty Conference. This means ARRL will publicize the conference in its weekly e-letter (107k subscribers) and monthly journal (160k members), and a descriptive listing has now been posted on its web pages. The publicity should bring in more attendees and ARRL will also provide some door prizes.

November 18:  ARISS Social Media leader Jim Reed spoke about ARISS during a special “Weather Pod,” the name of podcasts hosted by the Carolina Weather Group. Jim talked about a few schools going ahead with hosting scheduled ARISS contacts despite a hurricane and other disasters in their area, giving youth and communities a much-needed boost.  This particular Weather Pod, titled “Weather Pods Disaster Relief Telethon, raised funds for disaster relief activities and to support the American Red Cross. Five hosts moderated the telethon and The Weather Channel’s well-known Jim Cantore was a guest speaker. In a week’s time, the YouTube garnered 222 viewers.

November 17:  ISS Ham Radio Project Coordinator Kenneth Ransom and ARISS team member Ana Guzman at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX spoke to six NASA astronaut candidates about the ARISS program and ARISS school radio contacts.  The meeting covered technical aspects of the radio operations and communications. Other parts of the meeting highlighted the cool aspects of talking to large groups of students at educational facilities and the major inspiration astronauts’ ARISS radio contacts give to students, teachers, parents, and the community. Six more of the candidates plan to attend similar sessions in the coming weeks. 

ARISS Upcoming Events
February 22-24, 2023: Human Spaceflight Amateur Radio: 40^th Anniversary Celebration, KSC Center for Space Education, Titusville FL  —ARISS conference & gala, ARISS-I Team

November 3: Walkerston State School in Walkerston, Queensland, Australia held an ARISS contact for its students with Loral O’Hara. Great radio signals resulted in 16 students’ questions being answered. With a few minutes left at the end of the ISS’ pass, students sent up a big thanks and applause to Loral. A crowd of over 70 people watched the action. The school serves 320 students for grade levels 1-6 and had integrated space-related topics and technology into the yearly plan. The administration had partnered with the Mackay Astronomy Club and set up several star-gazing nights for all students.

November 6: Halls Head College youth in Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia enjoyed watching 13 fellow students talk with Loral O’Hara on the ISS.  She answered 14 of their questions. The school’s 1,400 students in grade levels 7-12 viewed a YouTube the school had set up. In addition to traditional curriculum that includes a cross-curricular STEM approach, students can select vocational and training courses offered both on and off campus. The school developed partnerships with area professional and university subject matter experts in the fields of space exploration.  

October 14-15: The 2023 AMSAT-UK Colloquium took place in Milton Keynes, UK.  The event is held each year at the same time and place as the Radio Society of Great Britain’s (RSGB—the UK national amateur radio society) annual meeting. Both offer subject matter experts presenting papers and forum talks for amateur radio enthusiasts.  Ciaran Morgan, ARISS lead for the UK and an RSGB representative, gave a forum on the newest ARISS projects and school radio contacts. Also presenting a forum was John Hislop who told all about the recent ARISS contact he had assisted with at St Peter Junior School in Broadstairs. Both talks drew 30 attendees. The livestream of the forums each garnered 65 viewers.

November 4: ARISS educator Martha Muir and ARISS social media guru Jim Reed shared the platform, presenting a forum on ARISS, at the annual Stone Mountain HamFest (a gathering of ham radio enthusiasts) in Lawrenceville, GA.  They spoke on the latest news about ARISS projects, touched on recent ARISS contacts held at Georgia schools, and announced the 40th Anniversary Conference: Celebrating the Positive Impact of Amateur Radio on Human Spaceflight to be held in February 2024.  

October 28:  Frank Bauer gave a talk to youth who belong to the East Coast Chapter of the Youth in Education program, the student arm of the Tuskegee Airmen.  The 15 high school youth and some of their informal educators met in the chapter’s College Park, MD instructional room to listen Frank describe some of the latest ARISS educational activities.  

November 3: Nearly a month after the Valley Stream (NY) South High School ARISS contact, a reporter from the online news source LIHerald.com posted her story all about being impressed with the thought-provoking questions students had asked Andreas Mogensen. The 8th through 12^th graders’ questions had resulted from studies taught in preparation for the contact covering astronomy and satellites, physics of rocket launches and orbital mechanics, and how amateur radio communications is used on the ISS.  The reporter’s story, titled “A look at the questions Valley Stream South students sent to the International Space Station,” also quoted the principal who said, “The stories of astronauts like Andreas Mogensen, and the images of distant planets inspire us all to dream big and aim for the stars motivating the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers.”

ARISS Upcoming Events
November 17: New Heights School-Learning Service, Calgary AB—ARISS contact, ARISS-Canada Team
Feb 22 – 24, 2024: Human Spaceflight Amateur Radio: 40^th Anniversary Celebration—ARISS conference and gala, ARISS-I Team