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| Astronaut Koichi Wakata |
Ben and Steve will be part of the ARISS radio ground crew facilitating contact between The International Space Station and Hidden Oaks Middle School in Prior Lake, MN on Thursday, May 1st! If you are interested in checking it out, you can listen to a live stream of the event at the link below. The window of opportunity for contact is short, and limited to the time when the ISS is passing directly above the location, so be sure to tune in prior to the start of the transmission. I believe streaming is set to start at 15:45 and contact is at 16:28 UTC/Greenwich Mean Time. There is a link at the ARISS site to help you convert times to your area. Astronaut Koichi Wakata, Commander of expedition 39, will be answering questions from the kids in what should be about a 10 minute conversation.
This is the second ISS contact Ben has helped with, and he is really excited to be a part of it! The ARISS program is a cooperative venture of NASA, the ARRL and AMSAT,
and other international space agencies that organizes scheduled
contacts via Amateur Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the
ISS, and classrooms and communities.
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I wish sometimes that there were "like buttons" on blogs! This is one of those times!
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