[W8MWA] AMSAT News Service Bulletin 195.01

[Bob West]

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 195.01


 From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.


 July 14, 2015


 To All RADIO AMATEURS


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 ARISS SSTV Images to Commmemorate 40th Anniversary 
of the Apollo-Soyuz Mission


 


 40 years ago this week, the historic joint Apollo-Soyuz 
mission was
conducted. Apollo-Soyuz (or Soyuz-Apollo 
in Russia) represented the
first joint USA-Soviet mission 
and set the stage for follow-on Russia-USA space 
collaboration on the Space Shuttle, Mir Space Station 
and
the International Space Station. The Soyuz and Apollo vehicles were
docked from July 17-19, 1975, during which 
time joint experiments and
activities wereollo-Soyuz was the final mission of the
Apollo program and the last USA human spaceflight mission until the
first space shuttle mission 
in 1981.


 


 To commemorate the 40th anniversary of this historic 
international
event, the ARISS team has developed a series 
of 12 Slow Scan
Television (SSTV) images that will be sent 
down for reception by
schools, educational organizations and 
ham radio operators,
worldwide. The SSTV images are planned 
to start sometime Saturday
morning, July 18 and run through 
Sunday July 19. These dates are
tentative and are subject to change. 

The SSTV images can be received
on 145.80 MHz and displayed
using several different SSTV computer
programs that are
available on the internet.


 


 We encourage you to submit your best received SSTV images to:


 


 http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/submit.php http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/submit.php


 


 The ARISS SSTV image gallery will post the best SSTV images
received
from this event at:


 


 http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php


 
              

 Also, as a special treat, on Saturday July 18 the ISS 
Cosmonauts
will take time out to conduct an ARISS contact with students
attending the Moon Day/Frontiers of Flight Museum 
event in Dallas
Texas. This Russian Cosmonaut-USA Student 
contact is planned to
start around 16:55 UTC through the 
W6SRJ ground station located in
Santa Rosa, California. 

ARISS will use the 145.80 MHz voice
frequency downlink 
(same as the SSTV downlink) for the Moon Day
contact.
 

 


 For more information on ARISS, please go to our web site:


 www.ariss.org http://www.ariss.org


 


 The ARISS international team would like to thank our 
ARISS-Russia
colleague, Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, for his 
leadership on this
historic commemoration.


 


 [ANS thanks Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, ARISS International 
Chair for
the above information]


 


 


 /EX


 

 

 		 	   		  
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