Glanmire Students To Make Contact With Astronauts In Orbit Today
Students from Glanmire Community College will have an out of this world experience later this morning when the make contact with astronauts in orbit
The pupils will get to chat to Joe Acaba while he hovers above the earth
This real-time Earth-to-space radio contact, uses amateur radio equipment to beam a line-of-sight signal to the International Space Station, the school will set up a temporary radio station on the grounds which will allow the students speak directly with the astronaut for approx. 10minutes
The event is part of the Amatuer Radio on the International Space Station Programme, with the ISS flying 400km directly above Glanmire at one point during the broadcast
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