[PPRAANet] Fw: [amsat-bb] EVA Press Conference

[Tom McDaniel]

Hi All,

This might be interesting to see if you can get NASA TV.  I believe that
DISH has a NASA channel.  Maybe someone with DISH could record it to pass
around to anyone interested?

73  Tom  n0ntx

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank H. Bauer" <fbauer@erols.com>
To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 7:30 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] EVA Press Conference


> All,
>
> I have gotten word that there is supposed to be a press conference
tomorrow
> about the upcoming ISS EVAs (spacewalks).  The NASA team asked to borrow
> one of our ISS Ham antennas from us, so I wouldn't be surprised if they
> discuss our antenna deployment at the press conference.  This press
> conference will be shown on NASA TV.
>
> The two EVAs are scheduled to occur on August 16 & August 23.  The plan is
> to deploy the last two ISS Ham radio antennas (WA1 and WA2) during the
> August 23 EVA.  The antennas will be installed along the perimeter of the
> aft end of the service module, closest to the Soyuz docking port.  WA1
will
> be located at the 8 O'clock position and WA2 will be located at the 4
> o'clock position.  FYI, 6 O'clock is down (Earth Pointing) and 12 O'clock
> is up. The EVA to deploy these is planned to start around 3:30 UTC on
> August 23.
>
> A picture of all four antennas prior to shipment is shown at:
>
> http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/4antennas.jpg
>
> (216k file)
>
> FYI, on-orbit photo of the WA4 antenna prior to deployment is shown at:
>
> http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/WA4_on_ISS.jpg
>
> (92k file)
>
> We have uploaded two on-orbit photos of the WA3 antenna, shown at the 10
> O'clock position on the aft end of the service module.  These are located
at:
>
> http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/WA3_antenna.jpg
>
> (181k file)
>
> http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/sts110_717_085_cropped.jpg
>
> (174k file)
>
> The following paper has some great pictures and diagrams which depict the
> entire ISS Ham system, including the antenna systems.  This paper is
> probably big for some that have low bandwidth internet capabilities.  The
> file is about 800K.
>
> http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov/EVAs/amsat01.pdf
>
> The ARISS-U.S. team is working with our Russian counterpart, Sergej
> Samburov, RV3DRto support this EVA.  The U.S. team will be supporting this
> EVA from the control centers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas
> and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.  The Russian
> team will be supporting this at the TSUP (Mission Control Center) in
> Korolev (Moscow area).
>
> 73,
>
> Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
> ARISS International Chairman
>
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