ARISS CONTACT WITH GERMAN SCHOOL IN WEISKIRCHEN SUCCESSFUL
Weiskirchen is a small town in the german Bundesland
The contact was part of a special EU event : the
exhibition "The Eye in the Sky", in relation to the fortieth anniversary
of the moon-landing.
The school Ecole Primaire Erpeldange, Grand Duchy of Luxemburg,
participated to the event. The questions of the ARISS contact were prepared by
pupils from
As an attraction for the juvenile visitors and with the goal to show
amateur radio technique to future hams, the school contact coordinator Wolfgang
Klein DD1WKS and his team set up a full satellite station for the simulation of
a direct contact.
The audience was about 130 people. State Secretary of Economy and
Science, Dr. Christian Ege, adressed the audience before the contact. Cornelia
Hoffmann-Bethscheider, member of parliament and Mr. Dietz, Mayor of Merchweiler
were also present.
The questions were read by 9 students from Weiskirchen and 5 students
from Luxemburg, aged from
An audio recording of the radio contact will be appended to this News
Bulletin, archived at
www.ariss-eu.org/archive.htm
The contact was covered by several media: Saarlaendischer Rundfunk
(radio broadcast and television), Saarbruecker Zeitung (newspaper) and
Concept-TV (local TV production).
Participants were delighted.
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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Peter Kofler, IN3GHZ
ARISS mentor