British amateurs will be involved in facilitating a \u2018telebridge\u2019 contact between the International Space Station and a children\u2019s summer camp at NASA Space Center Houston on Tuesday afternoon, the 13th of June 2017.<\/p>\n
The voice downlink (astronaut) transmissions will be audible over much of Europe on 145.800MHz from about 1519UTC.<\/p>\n
The HAMTV amateur television transmitter will also be active and should be transmitting from on-board the ISS.<\/p>\n
These HamTV transmissions can be received by stations in Europe and for the ARISS internet video stream, UK by members of the British Amateur Television Club will be operating the ‘HamTV Merger’ facility.\u00a0 This is a new facility that has been developed from the successful Principia activities last year and provides a single view of the HamTV signal from multiple ground stations.\u00a0 Several HamTV receiving stations will be involved in the contact, including the Goonhilly Earth Station, which featured predominately in the Tim Peake Principia <\/a>mission. These transmissions will be monitored in the UK by members of the British Amateur Television Club operating from Goonhilly Earth Station.<\/p>\n