Amateur Radio on the International Space Station-European Space Agency (ARISS-ESA) Educational Demonstrations
ESA)
Research Area: Educational Demonstrations
Expedition(s): 5 -11 and 14
Principal Investigator: ● Gaston Bertels, ARISS-Europe, Brussels, Belgium
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station-European Space Agency (ARISS-ESA) has the
task of conducting amateur radio contacts for schools, which allows students to ask questions
of astronauts aboard the
International Space Station and
receive their answer direct from
space. Candidate schools perform a
science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM)-oriented
educational project as part of their
event activities.
RESULTS
Since 2000, 859 successful
educational radio contacts were
performed by the ARISS organization,
allowing thousands of students to put
questions to astronauts aboard the
International Space Station and
receive their answer directly from
space in real time. The educational
STEM projects developed by schools, needed for gaining the privilege of a “space talk,”
constitute an excellent tool for teachers and a powerful incentive for students to investigate
space related topics. Detailed statistics are available at Zoho Reports:
https://reports.zoho.com/ZDBPublicDBView.cc?DBID=412218000000020415.
This investigation is complete; however no publications are expected.
Students attend Space Camp at the Euro Space Center in
Belgium are gathered in an auditorium to speak with astronaut
Ed Lu, aboard the International Space Station. ARISS image.