ARISS CONTACT PLANNED FOR ESA ASTRONAUT
PAOLO NESPOLI, IZ0JPA AND GRAN CANARIA
An ARISS School Contact is scheduled Thursday
3 March at 14.17 UTC for the Technological Centre for Innovation in
Communications (CeTIC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
The
Institute for Technological Development and Research in Communications (IDeTIC),
formerly known as CeTIC, is a Research and Development centre at the University
of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), which was founded in 2006. Formerly the CeTIC was composed of three
research divisions in communications engineering with more than 10 years worth
of experience, to whom were later added two new
divisions in early 2009. Its main goal is transferring technology between
companies and the university and, as part of it, to teach and train students in
communications. Our staff includes researchers (both
internal and third-party), PhD, MSc and BSc students, along with other
collaborating staff members. In the last 5 years our research strategies and
results have been supported by more than 200 publications on scientific
magazines and international conferences. All of them endorsed by our
participation in more than 50 research projects, most being joint
collaborations amongst international institutions and cutting-edge
technological companies.
The contact will be a direct, operated
by EG8ISS.
The event will also be broacast on streaming video at www.isscontact.eu .
The conversation will be conducted in English.
Students will ask as many of following questions as time allows.
1.
Laura (15): Can you tell me the different procedures that you must follow if
you have an important technical problem?
2.
Rodrigo (17): Are the effects of climate change on Earth visible from space?
3.
Jorge (11): Has the station any way to simulate day and night so you know when
to sleep?
4.
5.
Andrea (11): How old were you when you first thought of being an astronaut?
6.
7.
Abraham (11): Would a game console like the Wii work on the ISS?
8.
Luis (23): Do you see sparks when you close your eyes as the astronauts in the
Apollo program used to?
9.
Daniel (25): What do you do in your free time?
10.
Hector (25): What is the temperature in degrees Celsius inside and outside the
station?
11.
María (13): Have you seen the
12.
Juan (16): How are circadian rhythms affected by living in orbit?
13.
Mario (11): Does food taste the same as here?
14.
Laura (18): What will you miss most from space when you’ll be back on Earth?
15.
Paula (11): How long do you think it will take to inhabit other planets?
16.
Nestor (24): If you established communications with a U.F.O. and you only had
three words to describe humanity, which ones would you choose?
17.
Varkha (17): What would happen if you found space debris on your way?
18.
19.
Christian (13): What is more important for the space trip: physical training or
psychological preparation?
20.
Esther (16): I would like to work for a space agency, what do you advise me to
do?
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