ARISS Operations Information

• Scheduled events and school contacts as of 2019-09-23 at 14:30 UTC
• Combined school contacts information: CombinedARISSschoolcontacts.doc as of 2014-06-05 at 01:00 UTC
• Completed events and school contacts as of 2019-09-21 at 03:00 UTC (now separated by year of contact)
• Schools waiting as 2019-09-17 04:30 UTC
• Archived Schools as of 2019-09-19 at 05:00 UTC Contains schools that elected to not have a contact or where the status is totally unknown.
• Failed Schools as of 2019-07-25 at 03:00 UTC Contains schools that have failed. Also indicates schools that may have failed on their first attempt but who were later successful.
• Frequencies as of 2019-05-31 03:00 UTC Individual Doppler correction spreadsheets have now been created.
• SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS ON USING ERICSSON RADIO as of 2013-02-08 23:00 UTC 2.006ISSHamschoolCOL.doc.
• Contact information as of 2019-04-05 19:00 UTC Contains info for MSNBC.com contact arrangements and live audio URL. Telebridge station names and locations are now included.
• Reference material for public use as of 2019-09-21 at 03:00 UTC Contains material that may be passed along for public use: school application form (version 16), 24 hour email form (updated 2007-10-09 15:00 UTC), ARISS logo, NASA educator links and feedback form. Also a link to request an astronaut to visit the school and past MSNBC.com stories. Includes a link to VK5ZAI's webpage. Has a list showing the location of the ARISS telebridge stations. Has successful school database and Frequently Asked Questions list. Picture specifications are also presented. Has completed rate spreadsheet. Has a copy of the NEEIS (formerly EDCATS) questions, which should be provided to the school ahead of the contact. Template script for ARISS telebridge contacts. Also has the Mike Fincke Expedition 9 videos. Video of Leroy Chiao’s presentation at Fairview Elementary. Has updated NASA authorization forms. Now includes NASA material meant for US applications but usable by all. Includes new Activity Report form. Now has link to ARRL provided Pre-contact video.
• Reference material for private use as of 2019-09-19 05:00 UTC Contains material that is only meant for the ARISS operations team. This material is not to be shared outside of the ops team. Please review proposed document explaining the frequencies used and return feedback to Gaston. Telebridge station names and locations are now included.
• Special Ops meetings Notes as of 2014-05-22 19:00 UTC Special Ops Meeting Notes
• Meeting minutes directory
• ISS Press Kits may be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html
• List of weekly ARISS mentor telecom participants as of 2012-06-22 04:00 UTC ARISS_Mentor_Telecon_Short_List_2012-06-22.rtf
• ARISS Ops Roles and Responsibilities Changes as of 2012-12-19 08:00 UTC ARISSOpsR&RDec182012.doc or ARISSOpsR&RDec182012.pdf
• If HamTV or Ham Video is used, then the signals received will be viewable at https://hamtv.batc.tv/live/

All dates and times listed follow International Standard ISO 8601 date and time format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

Mentors:

Make sure the school supplies 2 weeks before the contact one or two short paragraphs about the school and their preparations, the student's names, and the questions the students will ask. The format of the questions is to be sequence number, first name, question and in the order they will be asked; one question at a time. Do not use automatic formatting such as automatic bullets, numbering or indentations. Do not use tabs or tables. The questions do not need to look pretty. Do not use fancy fonts, italics, bold, the word Over, last name unless 2 of the same first name and then use initials, the words “My question is” or “My name is”. For example: 1. John: How is the food? 2. Mary: Do you miss your family? Simple text file works best. Tell the schools that they do not need to do extra work to make the questions look good as all of that will get stripped away for our formatting.

24 hours before the contact, the school must email the "24 hour email" back to the operations team.

Within 1 week after the contact, make sure the school fills out the ARISS Activity Report found on the ARISS website at ARISS and that it is returned to ARISS at [email protected]

Schools should send Activity reports, post-contact reports, talent releases, photos, videos, etc. to [email protected]:

Email Charlie Sufana AJ9N at [email protected] or Will Marchant KW4WZ at Will Marchant, KW4WZ at [email protected] with any issues.

Current as of 2019-09-23 at 14:30 UTC