STUDENTS
AND TEACHERS INVITED TO FLY A FILE ON ARISSAT-1
SuitSat-1
was a very special Amateur Radio satellite. A discarded Russian ORLAN Space
Suit (in Russian a "Skafander") was equipped with an Amateur Radio
transmitter, which transmitted telemetry and greetings from youngsters to the
youth of the world in several languages.
In 2010,
an Amateur Radio satellite will once more be hand launched from the
International Space Station. It will be called ARISSat-1.
ARISSat-1
will again transmit messages recorded by students. Moreover, teachers and
students are invited to fly a file aboard this amateur radio satellite.
The
ARISSat-1 Team wishes to include on our new satellite a memory stick of files
prepared by students. This should be a
jpg or pdf of things the student has prepared such as a paper or a study done
on a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) topic, a drawing of space
craft or a schematic, a journal kept on a STEM topic, a story or news article
about a STEM subject, a photo of the class doing a hands-on STEM activity --
that type of thing.
Having
the student's work be a part of ARISSat-1 means the student is a part of the
satellite project and along for the spacewalk and deployment of ARISSat-1.
Readers
of this Bulletin are invited to approach teachers and students and draw their
attention on this opportunity to participate directly to a space flight for the
honor of being part of space activities.
Dave
Jordan, AA4KN, will take delivery of these files and copy them onto a memory
stick. The quantity of files and the size of a file are unlimited since memory
sticks provide for a very large amount of file space.
Files
should be either .JPG or .PDF
-- no Word documents, please.
Please
send files to Dave Jordan's address -- <aa4kn@amsat.org>
He will
look at all of them for content appropriate to students.
Files
can be in any language as long as an English translation is also included as a
text file.
If the file contains
sound recordings and/or photos or names of persons, a "Talent Authorisation
and Release" is requested. The appropriate document can be downloaded from
<http://www.ariss-eu.org/7
ARISS Release Form.doc>
The permission slip
has to be signed by the student or his/her guardian if the student is a minor.
The signed release
form is to be mailed to:
AMSAT
Martha
Saragovitz
Deadline
for submitting files:
Wishing
You every Happiness this
73
Gaston
Bertels - ON4WF
ARISS
Chairman