CALL FOR
STUDENTS' INPUT TO FLY ON ARISSat-1
SuitSat-1
was a Russian ORLAN Space Suit, transformed into an amateur radio satellite. It
was launched by hand from the ISS during an EVA, February 2006.
ARISSat-1
is a small satellite which will be launched from ISS in 2010 in a way
comparable to SuitSat-1.
SuitSat-1
carried a CD of students' school work. 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 means the student is a part of
the satellite project and along for the spacewalk and deployment of ARISSat-1. If
you know a schoolteacher or student that you talk to now and them, or if you
have a young relative, invite them to give you a jpg or pdf of their science
schoolwork 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, plus make them available on the web for anyone to see. The
quantity of files of reasonable size is not limited, 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
Please cc to : gaston.bertels@skynet.be
We will check that content is appropriate to students.
Files can be in any language as long as an English translation is also included
as a text file.
Deadline: 15 November 2009 !!!
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Gaston
Bertels - ON4WF
ARISS
Chairman