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tisdag, mars 12, 2013

ISS contact with participants at the Lycee Polyvalent Anatole France.

Amateurradio är och har sedan 16-årsåldern varit ett av mina stora intressen .
Detta blogginlägg är idag vad gäller ämnet inte särskilt uppseendeväckande, men jag tar med det för att det är så kul att visa upp en bra skola med intresserade elever (denna gång i Frankrike); tyvärr är som bekant förekomsten av motsatsen alltför många.

A video has been released of the International Space Station amateur radio school contact with participants at the Lycee Polyvalent Anatole France.

The contact took place at 1142 UT on Saturday, March 9, 2013. ISS Commander Chris Hadfield VA3OOG, used the call sign OR4ISS, and the high school used F4KIS.

Anatole France is a French high school located in Lillers, a small town in the center of the Pas-de-Calais department. There are about 850 students 15 to 20 years old.
The science teachers and the local amateur radio club F4KIS, which became in 2010 the ‘Artois Lys Radio Club’, have developed a partnership since 2007 collaborating on projects to send sounding balloons into the stratosphere.

This year, they are working with a group of students to contact the ISS. The students are preparing the TPE project for their final exam. They need to define the subject of their research, find information about it and run experiments over a period of six months in order to give an oral presentation of their work in front of a jury. Ten students have chosen to join the ARISS project for their TPE and are divided into three groups working on:
- Recycling in space.
- Traveling to space and back: taking off, putting a shuttle into orbit and landing it.
- The effects of weightlessness on the human body.

Watch contact ISS - Lycée Anatole France

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