Archive - 2003
January 4th
Chicago Youngsters Enjoy End-of-Year ARISS QSO
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school and educational contacts resumed in late December after a hiatus to change crews. Expedition 6 Crew Commander Ken Bowersox, KD5JBP, spoke December 29 via NA1SS with a dozen youngsters visiting Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago.
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ISS Status Report - Jan. 3, 2003
The Year 2003 began quietly for the International Space Station Expedition 6 crew. Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin, and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit crossed the international date line 15 times during the last day of 2002, officially greeting the new year at midnight Greenwich Mean Time during their sleep shift.
Packet users requested to not send e-mail messages to ISS crew
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) International Chairman Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, has requested that amateurs refrain from sending e-mail to the ISS crew via the onboard RS0ISS Personal Message System (PMS).....
ISS exhibit in Mobile, Al.
The City of Mobile, Alabama is hosting a 4 month long exhibit of the
International Space Station in their new Science Exploreum building.
The exhibit consists of a full scale.....
January 3rd
Amateur Radio Station onboard OFF
Hello, since January 1, 2003 at 17:13 UTC we haven't received any transmission from ISS Amateur Radio Station.
Probably the Crew forgot to change the mode to packet after the voice contact over USA or after ARISS scheduled contact, but we are not sure.
Have you any VOICE report after Jan. 1, 2003 at 17:13 UTC ?
Latest frames received from Space were:.....
Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule - 2003-01-03
Ecole Immaculle Conception, Brest, France, Direct
2003-01-08 07:37 UTC
Sacajawea Middle School, Montana, Direct
2003-01-08 15:19 UTC
Check out NASA Human Space Flight
At http://spaceflight.nasa.gov for visable sightings in your city.
This is a great site. I visit it all the time to get visable listings for my city.
Alot of other good information here also.
73 Doug (KC8FKS)
January 1st
Voice cntct ISS 31-12-02 Who was that man?
Voice cntct ISS 31-12-02 Who was that man?