The International Space Station

ISS ham radio contact planned with South Hobart Primary School

South Hobart Primary School, South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Friday, August 27 at 06:43 UTC via station K6DUE in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The ARISS activity has been incorporated into the school science curriculum through lessons covering the solar system, space exploration and the history of astronomy.

Students completed research projects on the planets of the solar system, kept phases of the moon diaries and wrote stories and poetry relating to these topics.

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