The images of the SSTV series 28 refer to two important events.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Soyuz-Apollo space mission, also known as the ASTP (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project), which was a joint space project of the USSR (Russia) and the United States. Its purpose was to dock the Soyuz and Apollo spacecraft in orbit. This mission, carried out in July 1975, was the beginning of cooperation between the two countries in space exploration.
On July 15, 1975, the Saturn IB rocket with the Apollo command module and docking module launched from Cape Canaveral. On the same day, a Soyuz rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the Soyuz 19 spacecraft. The docking of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft took place on July 17, 1975. The crews spent several days in orbit together.
40 years ago, Tony England W0ORE during the Challenger shuttle mission STS 51-F in 1985, he achieved the first ever two-way Slow Scan TV (SSTV) space contact.
Tony was running a Motorola model MX-340 handheld 2-meter transceiver and a Robot Research model 1200C slow-scan television scan converter with an antenna fitted on the inside of one of Challengers windows.
STS-51-F (also known as Spacelab 2) was the nineteenth flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 July 1985, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, just under eight days later on 6 August 1985, at 12:45:26 pm PDT.
The diploma shows the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft approaching each other in orbit, as well as a photograph of Tony England.
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio.
From Monday, 14 July 2025, at approximately 0945 UTC until Sunday, 20 July 2025, at approximately 1800 UTC, the ISS is scheduled to broadcast SSTV again. This is the 28th series of image transmissions, this time focusing on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) and the 40th anniversary of the STS-51-F mission (Space Transportation System), which launched as the 19th space shuttle mission with Challenger on 29 July 1985.
This mission was already the second SAREX flight (Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment), but the first in which an SSTV transmission was made in manned spaceflight.
The Challenger is still a sad memory for many of us since it exploded 73 seconds after launch on 28 January 1986 during the STS-51-L mission. The entire crew was killed.
The twelve images are transmitted in PD120 mode on the frequency 145.800 MHz.
Anyone who uploads a received and decoded image to http://ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV will receive a corresponding certificate by email.
Thank you for sending the report. SSTV images Series 23 transmitted from the International Space Station is a summary of ARISS events in 2024. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We also remember our friend Gaston Bertels ON4WF (SK), who was the leader of ARISS Europe and the ARISS Mentor for many years.
The ARISS SSTV event was realized thanks to the commitment of Sergey Samburov RV3DR from ARISS Russia and Frank Bauer KA3HDO – ARISS International Chair, as well as many other people. The official ARISS awards are provided by the ARISS Ad-hoc Award Committee: Oliver DG6BCE (chair), Armand SP3QFE, Francesco IK0WGF, Bruce W6WW, Shizuo JE1MUI, Darin VE3OIJ, Ian VE9IM.
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio.
Thank you for sending the report. After a long break, we are again enjoying the transmission of images from the International Space Station. Images of this series are transmitted experimentally, in order to test new equipment for amateur radio transmissions from the Russian module of the ISS.
The images refer to the ongoing International Space Week (October 4-10). On October 4, 1957, the first satellite Sputnik 1 was launched into Earth’s orbit, and on October 10, 1967, the Outer Space Treaty entered into force. The purpose of the celebrations is to recognize the contribution of scientists and space research to the development of humanity.
Images of Series 21 include Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) – a Russian scientist, creator of the theory of space flight and rocket construction. Several images show the first Earth satellite – Sputnik 1. The contribution of scientists and students of SouthWest State University (SWSU) in Kursk to the development of space technologies is also shown.
The diploma shows a photo of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Sputnik 1 satellite, and the SWSU-55 satellite designed and built by scientists and students of SWSU in cooperation with RSC Energa.
The ARISS SSTV event was realized thanks to the commitment of Sergey Samburov RV3DR from ARISS Russia and Frank Bauer KA3HDO – ARISS International Chair, as well as many other people. The official ARISS awards are provided by the ARISS Ad-hoc Award Committee: Oliver DG6BCE (chair), Armand SP3QFE, Francesco IK0WGF, Bruce W6WW, Shizuo JE1MUI, Darin VE3OIJ, Ian VE9IM.
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio.
Thank you for the report that you sent to ARISS. In the attachment, I am sending you the official “ARISS SSTV Award”.
April 12th is the annual Cosmonautic Day to commemorate the first human flight in the Space by Jurij Gagarin in 1961. The images of this ARISS SSTV event series 20 are also honouring the “Women in Space”. Our ARISS award shows from the left to right: Linda Godwin – the first female astronaut to conduct ARISS school communications from the ISS; Peggy Whitson – the first female ISS commander; Valentina Tereshkova – the first woman in space.
The ARISS SSTV event was realized thanks to the commitment of Sergey Samburov RV3DR from ARISS Russia and Frank Bauer KA3HDO – ARISS International Chair, as well as many other people. The official ARISS awards are provided by the ARISS Ad-hoc Award Committee: Oliver DG6BCE (chair), Armand SP3QFE, Francesco IK0WGF, Bruce W6WW, Shizuo JE1MUI, Darin VE3OIJ, Ian VE9IM.
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio.
More info:
https://www.ariss.org/
https://www.ariss-eu.org/
https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/
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Greetings – Slawek SQ3OOK, ARISS SSTV Award Manager
Toktar Ongarbayuly Aubakirov (born on 27 July 1946) is a retired Kazakh Air Force officer and a former cosmonaut. He is the first person from Kazakhstan to go to space. On 2 October 1991 he launched with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Volkov as flight commander, and the Austrian research cosmonaut Franz Viehböck in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport, and spent over eight days in space. Their mission was the last launched by the Soviet Union, which dissolved shortly thereafter, with Aubakirov becoming a citizen of the independent Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 1993, he has been the general director of the National Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan. He was a member of the Kazakhstan parliament. Now he is a pensioner and consultant.
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