Opportunity for U.S. Educators to make contact with the International Space Station.

The Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education
institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to
host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.
ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2024
and December 31, 2024. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the
exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities,
ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of
participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education
plan.

The deadline to submit a proposal is November 10, 2023.  Proposal
information and more details such as expectations, proposal guidelines
and the proposal form can be found at www.ariss.org. An ARISS Proposal
Webinar session will be held October 5 2023 at 7 PM ET and the
Eventbrite link to sign up is:
https://ariss-proposal-webinar-fall-2023.eventbrite.com

The Opportunity:
Crew members aboard the International Space Station will participate in
scheduled Amateur Radio contacts. These radio contacts are approximately
10 minutes in length and allow students to interact with the astronauts
through a question-and-answer session.

An ARISS contact is a voice-only communication opportunity via Amateur
Radio between astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station and
classrooms and their communities. ARISS contacts afford education
audiences the chance to learn firsthand from astronauts what it is like
to live and work in space and to learn about space research conducted on
the ISS. Students also have an opportunity to learn about satellite
communication, wireless technology, and radio science. Because of the
nature of human spaceflight and the complexity of scheduling activities
aboard the ISS, organizations must demonstrate flexibility to
accommodate changes in dates and times of the radio contact.

Please direct any questions to education@ariss-usa.org.

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a
cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the
space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In
the United States, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL),
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur Satellite
Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation
program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The
primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology,
engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by
organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members
aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts,
students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on
learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur
radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org.