{"id":241285,"date":"2016-05-30T14:19:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T18:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=29610"},"modified":"2016-05-30T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T18:19:59","slug":"ariss-contact-in-the-observer-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241285","title":{"rendered":"ARISS contact in The Observer newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"ARISS<\/p>\n

ARISS UK Team with UKSA’s Libby Jackson and Susan Buckle at The Kings School – Credit Goonhilly GES Ltd<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Carole Cadwalladr<\/a><\/strong> writes in The Observer<\/a><\/strong> newspaper for Sunday, May 29 about the amateur radio contact between students at The King’s School GB1OSM<\/a><\/strong>, Ottery St Mary, Devon and Tim Peake GB1SS<\/a><\/strong> on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

She says:<\/p>\n

A huge team of volunteers worked flat out to make it happen. The project was initiated by ARISS<\/a> (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station), enthusiasts who work with space agencies all over the world to inspire children about space and technology. Ciaran Morgan M0XTD<\/a><\/strong>, its UK leader, tells me how they approached the European Space Agency and persuaded them to let them do it and how the rest has been down to the volunteers. \u201cAll Tim has to do is put on his headphones and press a button. We do everything else.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Ten people spent three days setting up the equipment, the audio feeds, the video feed and the satellite backup at Goonhilly, down the road in Cornwall. \u201cAll amateur means is \u2018for the love of it\u2019,\u201d Morgan tells the audience. \u201cAs you see, the equipment we\u2019re using is very, very professional.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the full story at
\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2016\/may\/29\/tim-peake-ground-control-revive-science-interest-schools-space<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch the video of the contact at
\nhttps:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/05\/02\/the-kings-school-tim-peake\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) http:\/\/www.ariss.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Carole Cadwalladr writes in The Observer newspaper for Sunday, May 29 about the amateur radio contact between students at The King’s School GB1OSM, Ottery St Mary, Devon and Tim Peake GB1SS on the International Space Station. She says: A huge … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/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-241285","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\/241285","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=241285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241286,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241285\/revisions\/241286"}],"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=241285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}