ARISS USA | ARISS Canada | ARISS Video | Upcoming Contacts 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 […]
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ARISS contact with the Airdrie Space Science Club in Alberta: Friday, May 15 Second test of new Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio was a huge success!
Contact | News Release | Airdrie Space Science Club | Q&A YouTube video of ARISS contact with Airdrie Science Space Camp Update on today’s ARISS Contact: Friday, May 15, 2020 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program conducted its second test of its new distance-learning ARISS radio contacts with astronauts this morning. Youth […]
ARISS using new Multipoint Telebridge Amateur Radio Approach
ISS Space Contact: Northern Virginia School Group, Woodbridge, Virginia, April 30, 2020. Click on image for YouTube video. For immediate release: April 28, 2020 Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is pleased to announce the first use of a concept called Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio, allowing school contacts for Stay-At-Home students […]
ARISS celebrating successful launch carrying Interoperable Radio System to ISS
March 9, 2020 – The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is pictured attached to the International Space Station’s Harmony module as both spacecraft were soaring into an orbital sunrise 264 miles above the American state of Nevada. Photo courtesy of NASA and SpaceX. The following news item is courtesy of the American Radio Relay League: Amateur […]
Amateurs in the News: “96-year-old Amateur Radio operator at Ontario Science Centre speaks with astronaut” In celebration of Amateur Radio station VE30SC volunteer Jean Moffet, VE3WAD
For immediate release: A successful International Space Station (ISS) contact was held yesterday with participants at the Ontario Science Centre’s Amateur Radio station VE3OSC in Toronto, Ontario. As described below this was no ordinary ARISS contact. “Jean Moffet, VE3WAD, has been a volunteer at the VE3OSC station for more than 30 years. Having recently celebrated […]
CAMSAT Says CAS-6 Activation for Amateur Use has been Delayed
The following item is courtesy of the American Radio Relay League: Chinese Amateur Satellite Group (CAMSAT) CEO Alan Kung, BA1DU, has indicated that some problems with the precise attitude determination of the newly launched CAS-6 Amateur Radio satellite have delayed deployment of the antennas. The satellite was to have been put into service within three […]
Commemorative ARISS Slow-Scan TV Transmissions Event starts tomorrow Saturday, December 28 to Wednesday, January 1
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program will support slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions worldwide in memory of cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn. This event is currently scheduled to begin tomorrow, Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 11:00 UTC and will end at 18:20 UTC on Wednesday, January 1, 2020 when the system is […]
RAC Attends Canadian CubeSat Meeting in Fredericton RAC assiste à la réunion canadienne sur les CubeSat à Frédéricton
Disponible en français The following item is courtesy of The Canadian Amateur magazine: On October 7, 8 and 9, 2019, the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and CubeSat NB hosted the first of three Preliminary Design Review (PDR) meetings for the Canadian CubeSat Project initiated by the Canadian Space Agency […]
ARISS SSTV Event Commemorates Space Pioneer Astronaut, Owen Garriott, W5LFL, SK Thursday, August 1 to Sunday, August 4
Skylab and Space Shuttle Astronaut and First Amateur in Space: Owen Garriott, W5LFL Scientist-Astronaut-Amateur Owen K. Garriott, W5LFL, science pilot of the Skylab 3 mission, is stationed at the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) console in the Multiple Docking Adapter of the Skylab space station in Earth orbit. From this console the astronauts actively control the […]
New Chinese Amateur Radio Satellite CAS-7B Launched
The Amateur Radio satellite CAS-7B (BP-1B), carrying an FM transponder, was launched at 05:00 GMT on July 25, 2019 and the FM transponder and Telemetry Beacon have been received. The satellite was launched on Hyperbola-1 from Jiuquan into a 300 km 42.7 degree inclination orbit. CAS-7B is expected to have a lifetime of less than a […]