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Here is the press release for tomorrow’s contact, including the questions that the students will ask:
ARISS News Release No. 26-31
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at
Siksika High School, Siksika, Alberta, Canada
May 23, 2026—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and students at the Siksika High School located in Alberta, Canada. ARISS conducts 60-100 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.
The Siksika Board of Education (SBE) was established in 1989 for K-12 Siksika Nation’s youth. SBE provides a safe and inclusive environment rooted in Siksikaitsitapi ways of knowing and being. SBE has a strong commitment to language and culture, and is guided by a core set of values of respect, kindness, humility, generosity, community, and responsibility. The SBE operates four schools: Chief Crowfoot School K-6; Chief Old Sun School K-6; Siksika Outreach School 7-12; and Siksika Nation High School 7-12. Siksika Nation is part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, which also includes the Kainai Nation, Piikani Nation, and Aamskapi Piikani.
This will be a telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of astronaut Sophie Adenot, amateur radio call sign KJ5LTN. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the telebridge station.
The ARISS amateur radio ground station (telebridge station) for this contact is in Hollis, New Hampshire, U.S. The amateur radio volunteer team at the ground station will use the call sign AB1OC, to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for May 25, 2026 at 11:58:53 am MDT (Alberta, Canada) (17:58:53 UTC, 1:58 pm EDT, 12:58 pm CDT, 10:58 am PDT).
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. Is the career of being an astronaut linear? How does someone become an astronaut?
2. From your personal experience, how does being in space change your perspective on life?
3. Who inspired you to become an astronaut?
4. How do the planets look from your point of view on the International Space Station?
5. Can you describe the feeling of leaving Earth?
6. How long do you stay in space?
7. Is being in space lonely sometimes?
8. What does space smell like? Does being in space change your sense of smell?
9. How many years could a human live in space? What technology and supplies would be needed?
10. What does space sound like? Is it quiet in space?
11. What does a solar eclipse look like from the International Space Station?
12. What is the most interesting experiment or research you have worked on?
13. Do you have Internet on the space station?
14. What is the temperature on the space station? How do you control the temperature?
15. What was the closest you’ve been to an asteroid or meteoroid? How do you make sure these objects don’t hit the International Space Station?
16. How do you dispose of trash in space?
About ARISS:
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the ISS. In the United States, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org.
Media Contact:
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
Here is the link to the sign-up sheet. You can signup to operate at Winter Field Day and for any of the prep events by selecting the tab for each event.
Here is the Zoom link for tonight’s Winter Field Day planning meeting: Click here to Join Our Zoom Meeting.
We have a club breakfast this Saturday, December 13th at 8:30am at Denny’s in Nashua – see this forum post for details
After the breakfast, we will head back to our (AB1OC and AB1QB) QTH to work on Project #9 above – Build and Operate a Modern IT Core System.
We will be working on building the a new rack of data networking and image processing equipment for the AREDN network in New England. If you’d like to get some hands-on experience with enterprise-grade networking and server equipment, please join us.
You can get our address on QRZ or, better yet, join us for breakfast and follow us home. We will start around 10:30 am.
All of the Winter Field Day events have been added to our Club Calendar.
December events have also been added to our home page – N1FD.org
The start of the ISS pass today has been updated to 11:55 am EDT. So you will not hear the astronaut until that time.
There was a website issue that was causing all forum posts to appear to be blank. Fred has applied an update and all posts are back. If you tried to view a post yesterday and it was blank, please try again today – it should be back.
