[WIham] ARISS Contact Friday

[JohnAG9D]

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
participants at ESA/ESOC Long Night of the Stars, Darmstadt, Germany on
04 Sep. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 20:10 UTC.

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds.
The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and LU8YY. The contact
should be audible over portions of South America. Interested parties are
invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected
to be conducted in English.

The Contact will be on Echolink AMSAT Conference (Node 101377)

In cooperation with ESA and EUMETSAT, ARISS will partake in the Long
Night of Stars with the Community School Bergstrasse in Seeheim on 4th
September 2009. The students between 14 and 18 will meet astronauts,
spacecraft operators and engineers and will ask questions about the
education needed to reach the sky. The highlight of the night will be an
ARISS live contact with the ISS, giving them the occasion to ask their
questions of the astronauts, possibly to the ESA astronaut Frank De
Winne. ESA astronaut Reinhold Ewald will be the guest of honor. The
event is supported by the ESA Communication Office in Germany.

73,
John - AG9D
ARISS Operations Team