FRANK DE WINNE PERFORMS TWO
ARISS CONTACTS DURING SAME ORBIT
The telebridge ground station
for this contact was W6SRJ, located in
Signals were excellent and
Frank De Winne answered all 20 questions of the Dutch speaking students.
Twenty minutes later, at
09:55 UTC, 11:55 CEST, when the ISS was in reach of ARISS ground station
LU1CGB, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, operator Adrian Sinclair contacted
Frank De Winne for a second scheduled contact, this time with UNICEF World
Classes at Euro Space Center, Belgium.
De Winne answered 18
questions, some in French, others in Dutch.
Both ARISS contacts were
distributed on EchoLink by John Spasojevich, AG9D.
Audio recordings of both
ARISS contacts will be appended to this News Bulletin, archived at
www.ariss-eu.org/archive.htm
ARISS
is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating
space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the
AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.
ARISS
offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur
Radio by talking directly with crewmembers onboard the International Space
Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio
and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology
and learning.
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Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS Chairman