ENEIDE MISSION: ARISS “experiment”
Mission began on April the15th, at 2,46 a.m. (italian hour)
from the space polygon of Baikonur, in Kazakhstan. The Italian spaceman Roberto
Vittori reached the international space station together with the Russian
cosmonaut Sergei Krikalen and the american spaceman John Philips inside the
spaceship Soyuz TMA-6.
Roberto Vittori flight engineer has an active rule in driving the spaceship
in clasping operations to the spacestation. The stay of ten days on board
of SII will be a “tour de force” between an experiment an the
other; is necessary to remark that Europeans, have become the most important
users of the Spacestation for scientific research.
In fact 22 is the number of Italian experiments foreseen in many different
research sectors. Among the various experiments, the 18th, april 2005, from
I.T.I.S. Guglielmo Marconi in Civitavecchia, was done the ARISS “experiment”,
that is to say that was established a radioamatorial contact with the Italian
spaceman, orbiting on the international spacestation (ISS). The scholl contact
gave the students the chance to ask questions about scientific activity on
board of ISS:
The ISS passed through our sky at an hight of 350 km and with a maximum elevation
of 52,4° on the horizon.
The Ministry of Communications attended to the event with Ispettorato Territoriale
Lazio managers that previously executed a technical control on apreil the12th,2005.
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 nom. IKOWGF from “I.T.I.S. Guglielmo Marconi
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 IS G. Marconi in Civitavecchia.To the event attended with enthusiasm,
Princess Elettra Marconi that greeted Roberto Vittori at the end of connection.
Mr J.S. Troncoso manager of ESA, was also there.
The contact was kept some minutes and diffused at the same time on web from
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