ESPERIA MISSION: ARISS “experiment”

Liceo Scientifico G.Galilei, Civitavecchia, Roma, Italy

An International Space Station Expedition 16 ARISS contact has been planned with the Liceo Scientifico G.Galilei, Civitavecchia, Roma, Italy and ITI-LST Mottura, Caltanissetta, Italy on Wednesday, October 31, 2007. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 07:33 UTC.

Galileo Galilei is a high school with a scientific focus in Civitavecchia. There are 650 students aged between 14 and 19 attending our school. The main subjects are maths, physics, natural sciences, Italian, English, history and philosophy. Our school is situated in Civitavecchia near Rome. It is famous for its most important harbour in Italy. Marconi conducted experiments on microwaves, RADAR, radio mobile telephone and the use of the moon as a natural satellite. He sent waves to the moon and received their reflections.
Students will ask as many of the questions as time allows.

The Ministry of Communications attended to the event with Ispettorato Territoriale Lazio manager that previously executed a technical control.
The “E.S.A.” (European space Agency) gave the coordination of radioamateurs activities to International Space Station (ARISS) . In Italy there is a group of radioamateurs AMSAT, that is like ARISS, and is interested mostly in spatial communications. Under direct watch of I.T.L. managers through the temporary radioamateur connection in VHF band, communications were effectuated by radioamateur station from “Galileo Galilei" in Civitavecchia.
The contact was driven by a radioamateur member of ARISS staff and AMSAT in Italy, that our spaceman the most interesting questions proposed by our students of it Galileo Galilei in Civitavecchia.

The contact was kept some minutes and diffused at the same time on web from rai/net: www.rai.it/news