Die wöchentliche ATV-Runde in Boulder, Colorado, findet jeden Donnerstagnachmittag ab 15 Uhr statt (Kalifornien-Zeitzone), 23 Uhr MEZ. Sie wird gestreamt über den BATC-Internetserver in Großbritannien: https://batc.org.uk/live/
Klicken Sie für unseren Stream auf "AB0MY" oder "N0YE".
Eine beunruhigende Nachricht kommt via DH6MAV von ATV-Journal-Herausgeber Jim, KH6HTV: er liegt im Krankenhaus und hat eine große Operation mit schlimmen Rückschlägen hinter sich. Wünschen wir ihm alles Gute und baldige Genesung!
Das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt veranstaltet erstmals den „Tag der Raumfahrt“. Besucher können sich auf Erlebnisräume, interaktive Ausstellungen und ein Bühnenprogramm freuen. Am 28. März lädt das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) in dem Veranstaltungsraum XPost in Köln-Nord, Gladbacher Wall 5,50670 Köln zum „Tag der Raumfahrt“ ein, der erstmals in diesem Jahr von der Bundesregierung veranstaltet wird.
An den beiden Tagen, 28. und 29. März, finden deutschlandweit Veranstaltungen statt, um die Vielfalt der Raumfahrtanwendungen in Deutschland zu zeigen – von der Navigation im Auto über die Liveberichterstattung im Fernsehen bis hin zum Einsatz in Katastrophengebieten. Über 80 Unternehmen, Universitäten, Museen und Forschungseinrichtungen beteiligen sich an den Veranstaltungen.
Bei der Veranstaltung in Köln gewährt das DLR von 15 bis 20 Uhr vielseitige Einblicke in die Raumfahrtforschung. Themenschwerpunkte sind unter anderem die Erkundung von Planeten, Erdbeobachtung, Raumfahrtmedizin, Kommunikation und Navigation sowie weitere Anwendungen aus dem All. In der XPost erwartet die Besucher eine Vielzahl von Erlebnisräumen und Mitmach-Exponaten, die die neuesten Entwicklungen der Wissenschaft und Forschung präsentieren. Veranstaltet wird der Tag zusammen mit der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation ESA, die in diesem Jahr ihr 50. Jubiläum feiert. „Besonders freuen wir uns über das Interesse der Kinder und Jugendlichen“, sagt die DLR-Vorstandsvorsitzende Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla. Ein Bühnenprogramm für Familien soll allen Generationen die Faszination Raumfahrt näherbringen. Kinder können im "DLR School Lab" spannende Experimente selbst durchführen. Ebenfalls vertreten sein wird das Astronauten-Trainingszentrum der ESA.
Der Eintritt ist frei, jedoch ist eine Online-Anmeldung erforderlich, welche ab sofort über die DLR Website möglich ist:
https://event.dlr.de/dlr-tagderraumfahrt-2025/
Es wird empfohlen, mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln anzureisen. Es stehen keine Parkmöglichkeiten an der Location zur Verfügung.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der DLR-Sonderseite: www.tagderraumfahrt25.de/
SSTV aus der Stratosphäre
„Am 15. März startete unsere Amateurfunk-Ballonmission und sendete beeindruckende 7,5 Stunden lang SSTV-Signale aus der Stratosphäre. Ein großes Dankeschön an alle, die uns über 200 Empfangsberichte über unsere Webseite geschickt haben!“, berichtet Denis Apel, DO7TC, in einer E-Mail an die Redaktion der CQ DL..
„Wir haben Rapporte aus ganz Mitteleuropa erhalten – von den Niederlanden bis Polen und von Österreich bis Schweden. Ebenso danken wir für die zahlreichen Bilder, Video- und Tonaufnahmen unseres Ballons. Ein besonderer Dank gilt allen, die uns während der Mission auf der Talkgroup 264555 begleitet haben – das war Ham-spirit pur!“, berichtet er weiter.
Am 26. März um 18 Uhr findet auf https://treff.darc.de/ ein Vortrag zu dieser Mission statt. Dort werden die technischen Herausforderungen, die kurzfristige Konzeptänderung sowie die spannenden Ergebnisse der Mission vorgestellt. Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen, sich am 26. März einzuwählen. „Beste 73, von der Ballon-Crew des OV R04 und der IGH e.V. mit DAØIGH“, so DO7TC abschließend.
Quelle: darc.de
ARISS contact is scheduled with students at Canadian Elementary School Maple Bear, Sofia, Bulgaria.
March 21, 2025, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and students at the Maple Bear Elementary School located in Sofia, Bulgaria. ARISS conducts 60-100 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.
Maple Bear Sofia School, established in 2020 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is part of the global Maple Bear network, which encompasses over 400 schools across 39 countries, serving more than 60,000 students. The school follows a hybrid curriculum, combining the Maple Bear curriculum developed by over 200 education experts in Canada and regularly updated with the latest research in education, and the local Bulgarian curriculum, which is taught during the other half of the school day. Maple Bear school serves about 250 students with more than 180 actively participating in STEM activities. STEM activities are integrated in their curriculum starting at 2nd grade and extending through their 7th grade. Students have access to their STEM center which serves as a hub for innovative hands-on learning and cutting-edge research opportunities. Maple Bear Elementary School has partnered with the amateur radio club (LZ1KRN) and the Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs (BFRA) for this ARISS contact.
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of astronaut Don Pettit, amateur radio call sign KD5MDT. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relay ground station.
The amateur radio ground station for this contact is in Sofia, Bulgaria. Amateur radio operators using call sign LZ1KRN, will operate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for March 24, 2025 at 4:23 pm EET (Bulgaria) (14:23 UTC).
As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. I heard you do experiments with fish in aquariums. What happens to them because of gravity?
2. Where do you keep your ice cream?
3. What do you do in your free time on the International Space Station?
4. Which subject in school helped you the most to become an astronaut?
5. What is the most interesting experiment you have conducted on the International Space Station?
6. Have you seen something that nobody else has seen?
7. How do you sleep in space?
8. How many years did you train to go to the ISS?
9. How powerful is the engine of your spacecraft?
10. Does your voice sound the same in space as it does here?
11. Did you find space interesting as a child?
12. What was the most interesting thing you learned during your training? And how long did you train?
13. What kind of physical challenges did you have to overcome on Earth to prepare for space?
14. How do you have access to electricity and wi-fi?
15. What is the strangest thing you have seen orbiting the Earth?
16. Does time feel like it passes by faster in space?
17. What is the furthest you would want to go in space?
18. What does the ISS smell like?
19. Does every spacecraft fly out of NASA?
20. Is there trash in space, where does it accumulate, and how much is there?
21. What do you drink there?
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ARISS contact is scheduled with students at Yonezawa 5th Junior High School, Yonezawa, Japan.
March 25, 2025, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and students at the Yonezawa 5th Junior High School located in Yonezawa, Japan. ARISS conducts 60-100 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS.
Yonezawa 5th Junior High School is a public school with about 200 students in Yamagata Prefecture, located in the Tohoku region of Japan. The school will be closing this March due to its merger and subsequent move to another school in the area. Culmination of the students´ school experience at Yonezawa JHS (after also learning about the ISS, space exploration and amateur radio) will be this ARISS contact.
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of astronaut Don Pettit, amateur radio call sign KD5MDT. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relay ground station.
The amateur radio ground station for this contact is in Yonezawa, Japan. Amateur radio operators using call sign 8N7Y5JH, will operate the ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for March 28, 2025 at 6:56 pm JST (Yonezawa, Japan) (9:56 UTC).
The public is invited to watch the live stream at: https://www.youtube.com/live/V2bcwHEEigY
As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. When painting a picture of the space, I often use black or navy blue, but what color does it actually appear?
2. Is the view from the space station different in the morning, afternoon, and night?
3. What is the most fun thing about living on the space station?
4. What do you do during your free time?
5. Do you get motion sickness in space and what remedies do you have when you get sick in space?
6. Has your way of thinking and living changed since becoming an astronaut?
7. Is there an expiration date for space food? How long does it last?
8. I hear that bones and muscles weaken in space stations. How is this measured, and what is being done to prevent it?
9. What happens to tears if you cry in a space station?
10. What is the toilet like on the space station? And how is the waste managed?
11. What kind of study and training did you do to become an astronaut?
12. Why doesn't the space station collide with other satellites?
13. Have you ever felt scared in space? When was that?
14. What was the most beautiful sight you saw from the space station?
15. Can you see how a season changes on the Earth from space? For example, can you see snow?