Rabea Rogge LB9NJ / KD3AID – Photo credit DLR
A SpaceX rocket carrying radio amateur Rabea Rogge LB9NJ / KD3AID and 3 other astronauts launched from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on April 1 at 0146 GMT on the Fram2 mission. It is the first polar-orbit human spaceflight mission to explore Earth.
Rabea will be transmitting amateur radio Robot 36 Slow Scan TV (SSTV) images on 437.550 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift) during the mission.
ARISS will provide special commemorative certificates for those who upload their Fram2 SSTV images to the ARISS SSTV Gallery. Certificates will be delivered after the completion of the Fram2 mission.
There are several challenges in receiving the images, the low transmit power, variations of antenna orientation, and a short, 3-day mission duration, with only a limited time assigned for the SSTV operation. Are you up for the challenge? 
Watch a recording made by Robbie Ei2iP of the amateur radio downlink during the contact on April 1 at 0728 GMT between Fram2 astronaut Rabea Rogge LB9NJ / KD3AID and students at the Technical University Berlin (note unexpected frequency change).
Watch the Technical University Berlin video of the contact
Operations Frequency: 437.550 MHz FM (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift).
SSTV Mode: Robot 36
ARISS are livestreaming orbital predictions for the Fram2 mission at
Orbital predictions
Fram2 TLEs (also known as Keplerian, or Orbital Elements)
Upload your received pictures to https/ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV/
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First human Spaceflight to Earth’s polar regions
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