Abstract
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) payload was first deployed and operated on the International Space Station (ISS) about two weeks after the first ISS expedition crew arrived on ISS. It has been continuously operational since that time. This makes ARISS the first operational payload and first educational outreach program on the ISS (Bauer et al. in Proceedings from the World Space Congress) [1]; (Conley et al. in Proceedings from the World Space Congress) [2]. ARISS provides a unique, once in a lifetime, educational opportunity for youth to conduct a ten-minute question and answer interview directly with crew members on board ISS. This is accomplished using the ARISS amateur radio systems on ISS, through the support of ISS crew members that have obtained their amateur radio licenses and through hundreds of ARISS international volunteers around the world. These volunteers mentor the schools, help set up ham radio equipment in the schools, and then prepare the students to coïnduct the contact with the ISS crew. ARISS, an international working group consisting almost entirely of dedicated volunteers, partners with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), and the other ISS international space agencies to engage the schools and students in educational opportunities that enable them to explore space and learn about wireless technology.
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Abbreviations
- ARRL:
-
Amateur Radio Relay League
- AMSAT:
-
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
- APRS:
-
Automatic Position Reporting System™
- ARISS:
-
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
- AZ:
-
Arizona
- BATC:
-
British Amateur Television Club
- BPSK:
-
Binary Phase Shift Keying
- CA:
-
California
- CD:
-
Compact Disk
- CDM:
-
Children’s Discovery Museum
- CASIS:
-
Center for the Advancement of Science in Space
- CIRC:
-
Central Illinois Radio Club
- CLC:
-
Challenger Learning Center
- CSA:
-
Canadian Space Agency
- DATV:
-
Digital Amateur Television
- DVB-S, DVB-S2:
-
Digital Video Broadcasting via Satellite
- ESA:
-
European Space Agency
- EVA:
-
Extra Vehicular Activity
- FGB:
-
Functional Cargo Block
- FL:
-
Florida
- FM:
-
Frequency Modulation
- GSNEO:
-
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio
- HamTV:
-
Amateur Radio Television
- IN:
-
Indiana
- ISS:
-
International Space Station
- JSL:
-
Joint Station LAN
- JAXA:
-
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- KSC:
-
Kennedy Space Center
- LAN:
-
Local Area Network
- MA:
-
Massachusetts
- MHz:
-
MegaHertz
- MO:
-
Missouri
- NASA:
-
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- OH:
-
Ohio
- ROC:
-
Republic of China
- Roscosmos:
-
Russian Space Agency
- SAREX:
-
Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
- SCaN:
-
Space Communication and Navigation
- SSTV:
-
Slow Scan Television
- STEAM:
-
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics
- STEM:
-
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
- STS:
-
Space Transportation System
- TDRSS:
-
Tracking Data Relay Satellite System
- TX:
-
Texas
- UBA:
-
Union Royale Belge des Amateurs-Emetteurs
- UHF:
-
Ultra High Frequency
- UK:
-
United Kingdom
- US:
-
United States
- USB:
-
Universal Serial Bus
- UTC:
-
Universal Coordinated Time
- VDC:
-
Volts Direct Current
- VHF:
-
Very High Frequency
- VITA:
-
Vitality, Innovation, Technology and Ability
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge our space agency sponsors NASA, ESA, CSA, JAXA, and Roscosmos, who have been instrumental in realizing the ARISS educational outreach program. We would also like to thank our amateur radio sponsors, the national amateur radio societies, including the ARRL in the USA and the international AMSAT organizations, including AMSAT-NA. Special recognition goes to the international ARISS volunteer team for their tireless efforts in making ARISS such a successful, low-cost STEAM initiative. Finally, we want to thank the NASA SCaN organization and CASIS for their sustained support and guidance to further expand our educational programs.
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Bauer, F.H., Taylor, D., White, R.A., Amend, O. (2019). Educational Outreach and International Collaboration Through ARISS: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station. In: Pasquier, H., Cruzen, C., Schmidhuber, M., Lee, Y. (eds) Space Operations: Inspiring Humankind's Future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11536-4_33
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