ARISS meeting ESTEC 2014ARISS Europe - Space Agency Support for Educational Outreach

Francesco De Paolis – IKØWGF

ARISS meeting ESTEC 2014ARISS Europe

Space Agency Support for Educational Outreach

ARISS International Delegates Meeting, April 3 - 5, 2014 – ESA ESTEC

Summary

ESA Educational ARISS program promoted on ESA Portal ESA Educational resources

ESA funding the ARISS antennas on Columbus ESA funding the HAM TV on Columbus Memorandum of Understanding AMSAT Italia / ESA Portal

Discussion

ARISS meeting ESTEC 2014ARISS Europe - Space Agency Support for Educational Outreach

ARISS International Delegates Meeting, April 3 - 5, 2014 – ESA ESTEC

ESA Educational resources http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/International_Space_Station_Benefits_for_Humanity/Inspiring_Youth_With_a_Call_to_the_International_Space_Station/

ARISS meeting ESTEC 2014ARISS Europe

Space Agency Support for Educational Outreach

ARISS International Delegates Meeting, April 3 - 5, 2014 – ESA ESTEC

ESA Educational resources

-All resources are also available for electronic download:http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Education/ISS_Education_Kit_-_downloads

-Various lessons here:http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Lessons_online/Lessons_online

-All video products are also freely available on ESA YouTube educationplaylists:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL887A2F41F3F89F6A

the existing resources we have which can be ordered online:http://wsn.spaceflight.esa.int/education/

ARISS meeting ESTEC 2014ARISS Europe

Space Agency Support for Educational Outreach

ARISS International Delegates Meeting, April 3 - 5, 2014 – ESA ESTEC

Funding the ARISS antennas on Columbus

The ARISS antennas have been installed in October 2007. The installation cost of the ARISS antennas on Columbus exceeded 100.000 euro. ESA initially offered to support 50.000 euro of this amount but later decided to cover the installation cost completely .

The Wroclaw University of Technology obtained some funding for the ARISS antennas from the Polish Ministry of Research and Development. This helped cover the development, manufacturing and testing cost and limited our effort to 86.000 euro.

ARISS meeting ESTEC 2014ARISS Europe

Space Agency Support for Educational Outreach

ARISS International Delegates Meeting, April 3 - 5, 2014 – ESA ESTEC

Funding HAM TV on Columbus

Fostered by the enthusiasm of Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli IZØJPA, alias IRØISS who had performed many ARISS school contacts during his 2010 - 2011 expedition aboard the Space Station, at the initiative of AMSAT Italia, an Italian manufacturer, Kayser Italia, presented a project for an amateur radio DATV transmitter to ESA’s Columbus Engineering Department.

In 2012 this proposal was accepted and ESA signed a contract with Kayser Italia for the development and the manufacturing of a DATV transmitter to be used with the ARISS L/S-band antennas. The transmitter, dubbed “Ham Video”, is presently installed onboard Columbus and operational for commissioning.

ARISS meeting ESTEC 2014ARISS Europe

Space Agency Support for Educational Outreach

ARISS International Delegates Meeting, April 3 - 5, 2014 – ESA ESTEC

Memorandum of Understanding AMSAT Italia / ESA Portal(extract)

7 Agreement

7.1 AMSAT Italia and ESA ESRIN agree on the following:

7.1.1 AMSAT Italia shall provide to ESA well in advance the planning of educational amateur

radio events, involving schools in Italy and other European countries and the ISS;

7.1.2 AMSAT Italia shall provide a week in advance detailed information about the event and

about the school involved;

7.1.3 AMSAT Italia shall provide audio or video streaming during the event;

7.1.4 ESA ESRIN shall promote the Italian school events on the Italian section of the ESA

Portal with a link to the audio or video streaming and shall archive the files on a relevant page;

7.1.5 ESA ESRIN shall inform other national ESA portals of ARISS school events in other

countries for possible announcement on relevant pages.

ARISS meeting ESTEC 2014ARISS Europe

Space Agency Support for Educational Outreach

ARISS International Delegates Meeting, April 3 - 5, 2014 – ESA ESTEC

Memorandum of Understanding AMSAT Italia / ESA Portal

ARISS meeting ESTEC 2014ARISS Europe

Space Agency Support for Educational Outreach

ARISS International Delegates Meeting, April 3 - 5, 2014 – ESA ESTEC

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