ARISS commemorative event (April 11-14)

Looks like all the pieces are starting to fall into place for the long awaited SSTV event.  The schedule is shaping up to look like this:

Setup and activation on April 11 about 18:25 UTC. 
Paused April 12 from 12:15 until 14:15 UTC to allow for a school contact with Romania. 
Paused April 13 from 12:45 until 14:30 UTC to allow for a school contact with Argentina. 
Deactivation on April 14 at 11:35 UTC.
This opportunity should cover most of the world during the operational period.The image transmissions should be on 145.800 MHz and the mode is planned to be PD180.

In addition, MAI-75 will be conducting two sessions afterwards. The first one is April 14 from 14:45 until 18:00 UTC. The second session is on April 15 from 14:10 until 19:00 UTC. These times do not cross N. America but will provide opportunities for Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and S. America.

As always, all operations aboard the ISS are subject to change and everyone interested in this activity should be vigilant and patient."

*** Update (April 11, 2016)
Looks like the start will be delayed. Seems the hardware is having issues and not transmitting. Troubleshooting is in work.

*** Update (April 12, 2016)
A faulty connector appears to still be plaguing SSTV operations. I has been working for some periods of time but continues to cause problems for transmissions. It was active over N. America at 20:00 UTC.

SSTV activity being planned for late Dec. 2015 (Now Jan.)

The ARISS Russia team is making plans to support a couple of SSTV events in the next few months. The first session is being targeted for Dec 26-27 (subject to change) to celebrate 15 years of ARISS school contacts with the ISS crew. The down link mode will be PD120 which should allow for the opportunity to receive more images in a single pass. Watch for updates and additional information as it becomes available.

** UPDATE** (Dec 22)

Event is being postponed until middle of January to allow more time for the Russian team to finalize the imagery. Likely to be another session in February as well.

** UPDATE** (Jan 12)

Another delay in the scheduling of the SSTV event. Stay tuned for further information as it becomes available.

**UPDATE** Feb 23

Russian team reporting SSTV now being rescheduled for late March to early April period. No specific dates as yet.

Diploma opportunity

The ARISS commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission is going quite well.  Some absolutely beautiful pictures have been posted on the ARISS SSTV image gallery.  See:
http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php
Kudos to all on the great reception!

Also, fantastic efforts on ISS and in Dallas Texas yesterday for the Moon Day/Frontiers of Flight Museum contact.  It was fitting to have a US school and the Russian Cosmonauts conducting a joint ARISS contact on the 40th anniversary of the of the Apollo-Soyuz docking.

In commemoration of the Apollo Soyuz SSTV event, ARISS will be distributing a limited edition diploma to all that received the SSTV images.  If you want to get a commemorative diploma e-mailed to you, we are cordially invite you to listen on 145.800 MHz FM, decode the audio and share your received images with us.

You can receive a commemorative diploma by filling in one of two application forms:
English version:
http://ariss.pzk.org.pl/Apollo-Soyuz/en
or Russian language:
http://ariss.pzk.org.pl/Apollo-Soyuz/ru

The deadline to apply for the diploma is the end of July 2015.

Enjoy!
73,  Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
ARISS International Chair

July 19 status

Looks like images continued to come down overnight and will run until the scheduled conclusion of the event at 21:20 UTC.
Some great images captured by folks all over the world. The following examples should include all of the different images sent during the event.

Image above received by UA9UIZ.

Image above received by CX1TH.

Image above received by JF1EUY.

Image above received by 3V8CB.

Image above received by HS3ANP.

Image above received by LU1DA.

Image above received by VK6TGQ.

Image above received by IK1SLD.

Image above received by PD0RKC.

Image above received by PE0SAT.

Image above received by CU2ZG.

Image above received by WD9EWK.

July 18 report - 17:30 UTC

Seems to be a lot of reports of carrier only and no modulation. School contact was conducted around 1700 UTC and crew will need to setup equipment for SSTV again. Hope that images will start coming down soon.

****UPDATE****

Images in PD180 received over southeast Asia on 145.800. Hopefully the transmissions will continue until 21:20 UTC on July 19. Good luck.

***UPDATE***
Very Nice image captured over South America by LW8EXS.

ARISS SSTV Images to Commmemorate 40th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Mission

40 years ago this week, the historic joint Apollo-Soyuz mission was conducted.   Apollo-Soyuz (or Soyuz-Apollo in Russia) represented the first joint USA-Soviet mission and set the stage for follow-on Russia-USA space
collaboration on the Space Shuttle, Mir Space Station and the International Space Station.  The Soyuz and Apollo vehicles were docked from July 17-19, 1975, during which time joint experiments and activities were accomplished with the 3 USA astronauts and 2 Soviet Cosmonauts on-board.  Apollo-Soyuz was the final mission of the Apollo program and the last USA human spaceflight mission until the first space shuttle mission in 1981.

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of this historic international event, the ARISS team has developed a series of 12 Slow Scan Television (SSTV) images that will be sent down for reception by schools, educational organizations and ham radio operators, worldwide.  The SSTV images are planned to start sometime Saturday morning, July 18 and run through Sunday July 19.  These dates are tentative and are subject to change.  The SSTV images can be received on 145.80 MHz and displayed using several different SSTV computer programs that are available on the internet.

We encourage you to submit your best received SSTV images to:
http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/submit.php


The ARISS SSTV image gallery will post the best SSTV images received fromthis event at:
http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php

Also, as a special treat, on Saturday July 18 the ISS Cosmonauts will take time out to conduct an ARISS contact with students attending the Moon Day/Frontiers of Flight Museum event in Dallas Texas.  This Russian Cosmonaut-USA Student contact is planned to start around 16:55 UTC through the W6SRJ ground station located in Santa Rosa, California.  ARISS will use the 145.80 MHz voice frequency downlink (same as the SSTV downlink) for the Moon Day contact.

For more information on ARISS, please go to our web site:  www.ariss.org

The ARISS international team would like to thank our ARISS-Russia colleague, Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, for his leadership on this historic commemoration.

Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO
ARISS International Chair

**UPDATE**
Operational times should be around 10:30 UTC on July 18 until 21:20 UTC on July 19.

Series 3 images

Looks like the world wide network of SSTV receiving stations have already managed to receive very good quality images of all 12 of the photos sent by the ISS. Here they are: