The ARISS team expects that a second SSTV transmission event will occur
from ISS this weekend.
ARISS Russia team member Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, worked with the
mission control center flight controllers to schedule in ISS crew member time
to configure the JVC Kenwood radio to support SSTV operations in the Service
Module. SSTV setup is expected to start around 8:45 UTC on February 15
and conclude around 17:25 UTC on February 17. These dates/times are expectations
and may vary.
The ARISS team wanted to give the community another opportunity
to downlink the SSTV images we developed for you given the weak signal
situation that occurred last weekend. For clarity, these will be the same
12 images that were downlinked last weekend.
As a reminder, you can get the latest SSTV information on the
ARISS SSTV Blog Spot: http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/ Once
received, Images can be posted and viewed by the public at http://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php
And you can receive a special SSTV ARISS Award for posting your
image. See https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/.
For simplicity, we have added a new tab for SSTV, under general contacts, on
the ARISS web site www.ariss.org
For those that are asking, we are still not totally clear what
caused the issue last weekend. We believe it may have been either a loose
feedline cable or an antenna switch that did not fully engage. Once the crew
reset the system and checked the cabling and switches, the radio system started
to perform nominally.
Enjoy!!
73, Frank, KA3HDO
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