{"id":239317,"date":"2016-02-02T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=27925"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:22:09","slug":"primary-school-students-tune-in-to-tim-peake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239317","title":{"rendered":"Primary school students tune in to Tim Peake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_27927\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/st-mildred_s-primary-infant-school-students-listen-to-tim-peake-using-amateur-radio.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27927\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27927\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/st-mildred_s-primary-infant-school-students-listen-to-tim-peake-using-amateur-radio.jpg?w=640&#038;h=437\" alt=\"St Mildred\u2019s Primary Infant school students listen to Tim Peake using amateur radio\" width=\"640\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">St Mildred\u2019s Primary Infant school students listen to Tim Peake using amateur radio<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The amazing interest in Tim Peake\u2019s mission on the International Space Station (ISS) is keeping the Hilderstone Amateur Radio and Electronics Club busy with enquiries from schools.<\/p>\n<p>The pupils of Monkton C of E Primary school were thrilled to receive a message from space when they picked up the signal from a passing amateur radio satellite. They calculated the orbital period from the variations in the satellite\u2019s temperature as it passed from sunlight into the Earth\u2019s shadow, taking 97 minutes to orbit compared to Tim\u2019s 93 minutes. They learned how Isaac Newton explained the orbit of objects around the Earth nearly 300 years before Sputnik was launched!<\/p>\n<p>The year 2 pupils of St Mildred\u2019s Primary Infant school were very excited to hear Tim\u2019s voice live when he answered the pupils\u2019 questions from Sandringham school. They were using 3 handheld amateur radio receivers provided by the club and heard Tim\u2019s reply to the question about the mission being named after Newton\u2019s book Principia.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn about amateur radio and electronics you will be made most welcome at the club. Alternatively you can send them an email to hilderstoneclub&lt;at&gt;gmail.com or visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/g0hrs.org\/\" >club website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hilderstone Amateur Radio and Electronics Club<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/g0hrs.org\/\" >http:\/\/g0hrs.org\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/G0HRS\" >https:\/\/twitter.com\/G0HRS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is Amateur Radio? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/what-is-amateur-radio\" >http:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/what-is-amateur-radio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find an amateur radio training course near you <a href=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/services\/coursefinder\/\" >https:\/\/thersgb.org\/services\/coursefinder\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=27925&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amazing interest in Tim Peake&rsquo;s mission on the International Space Station (ISS) is keeping the Hilderstone Amateur Radio and Electronics Club busy with enquiries from schools. The pupils of Monkton C of E Primary school were thrilled to receive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/02\/02\/primary-school-students-tune-in-to-tim-peake\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=27925&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239328,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239317\/revisions\/239328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}