Well its been over a week since the #yearinspace crew landed after 340 days in space. This mission was unlike anything we have seen since the 1990's this mission broke so many records so lets talk about them.

ARISS..... contatti con le scuole, bel video del collega OM l'astronauta Tim Peake :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-yHD9lVbH8&feature=youtu.be

e del nostro mitico (anche lui OM ) Luca Parmitano :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwtLkTpgNMM&feature=youtu.be

73 de Rudy - IW2BSF

Astronaut Tim Peake made a video showing the amateur radio equipment in the ISS Columbus module.
During the video the ISS Ericsson handheld radio, the white packet modem and
DATV transmitter is visible.
Tim Peake also talks about the ARISS school contacts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-yHD9lVbH8

Recently ARISS celebrated the 1000th ARISS contact.
A story is written on the NASA website:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/ariss_students
Source: https://twitter.com/rf2space

73's Cor PD0RKC

March 10, 2016

Today the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station team (ARISS team) proudly celebrated its 1000th school radio contact!