{"id":50208,"date":"2026-09-04T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=50208"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:32:43","slug":"host-an-ariss-intl-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2026\/09\/04\/host-an-ariss-intl-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Host an ARISS Intl contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/honorary-officers\/ariss-coordinator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amateur Radio on the International Space Station<\/strong><\/a> programme is an opportunity for educational organisations to host an amateur radio contact with a crew member on board the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The window to submit an application is now open and ends on 23 October 2026. This is for a contact to take place between July to December 2027.\u00a0If you are a school, college, university or youth group, take a look at the information available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ariss-eu.org\/index.php\/school-contacts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u2018School Contacts\u2019<\/strong> <\/a>tab via the ARISS Europe website.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to view videos of different contacts, go to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/thersgb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> RSGB YouTube channel<\/strong> <\/a>and search for &#8216;ARISS&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station programme is an opportunity for educational organisations to host an amateur radio contact with a crew member on board the International Space Station. The window to submit an application is now open and ends on 23 October 2026. This is for a contact to take place between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50209,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50208\/revisions\/50209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}