SBARC Members,

Many of you have asked me about listening in on the International Space Station contact tomorrow between Astronaut Chris Cassidy and Anacapa School students taking place as part of the ARISS program. We will do our best to simulcast it on one of the K6TZ repeaters: 146.790 and/or 446.400 beginning at around 10:42 am. Please check both frequencies. You may also attempt to monitor the downlink directly on 145.800 MHz FM during the contact window from 10:42 am - 10:53 am.

We are also planning a live video webcast starting at about 10:30 am. See the information below.

Levi, K6LCM Watch live video as ... Anacapa students make a rare space-to-Earth radio contact with NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy

Live video stream from the event starts Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. PDT

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Cassidy is a flight engineer on Expedition 35, the 35th and current long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and Cassidy’s second spaceflight. Anacapa students will have an opportunity to ask questions of Cassidy during the 10-minute live forum as the space station’s orbit passes over Southern California.

The arrangement is made possible by Anacapa School’s participation in the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Teaching From Space program, a cooperative venture between NASA, the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) and other international space agencies that coordinates scheduled radio contacts between astronauts aboard the ISS and schools.

Read more about this event in our official media release.

Astronaut Chris Cassidy’s NASA Bio: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/cassidy-cj.html Videos from the Anacapa School Synthesis Unit “Space: Where Are We Going?”: http://tinyurl.com/ckmzn8o Live video of the contact: http://www.anacapaschool.org/ansec