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about life in space, directly connecting students
with space station crew, sharing amateur radio
technologies, and building global partnerships. Several dozen receiving radio
The downlink audio from ARISS contacts can amateur stations, located on
be heard by anyone in range with basic receiving
equipment. Transmissions broadcast on almost all continents, participated
145.800 megahertz. In addition, many contacts in the Inter-MAI-75 sessions of
now stream live over the internet.
Many different pieces of technology go into a ham information reception.
radio contact; however, one of the most important
is the collaboration between the groups of people
involved. Just as the space station is a multinational
effort, each ham radio contact requires groups
from various cultures, careers and countries to different types of information to Earth (i.e., voice,
work together. telemetric, black-and-white photos, color photos,
video images, and printed text) is the Inter-MAI-75
U.S. educators interested in participating in an ARISS experiment, which has been implemented onboard
communication can submit a contact proposal during the ISS since 2016.
twice-a-year proposal windows. International schools
submit applications for consideration via the ARISS The Inter-MAI-75 experiment involves the methods and
website. Submissions are due in July and January specialized software and hardware that were worked
of each year. out in the MAI-75 experiment. This provides interaction
of various categories of users with the ISS crew via
Since 2000, ham radio has reached 59 countries and specialized communication channels by means of
more than 1,100 schools or organizations. Overall, remote user terminals, through the example of the
education opportunities onboard the space station MAI Data Reception and Processing Center and the
have involved more than 42 million students, onboard Sputnik ham radio system. At the same time,
2.8 million teachers and 25,000 schools.
Another educational opportunity—the Student
Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP) (http://
ncesse.org/) in coordination with NanoRacks—
provides elementary and middle-school students
the opportunity to propose and launch their own
investigations to the space station.
For students who have never thought about
space exploration, being involved in an amateur
radio event can potentially plant the seed of a future
career in STEM. From the moon shot to the space
station, space exploration continues to inspire the
next generation.

Spacecraft and Modern Technologies
of Personal and International
Communication Links in Education
The Spacecraft and Modern Technologies for Personal Sample of image taken from the ISS RS in
Communications (MAI-75) experiment provides December 2016 by amateur radio communication
real-time video from space. This video is used channel during the sessions of the Scientific
widely in Russian educational institutions and the Experiment Inter-MAI-75, devoted to the 100th
international amateur community for the exchange and anniversary of the birth of Academician V.P. Mishin.
transmission of information by means of amateur radio Image credit: Moscow Aviation Institute (National
communications onboard the ISS. The next stage in Research University)
the development of the methodology for transmitting

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