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ISS and Amateur Radio—Together for 25 Years and Counting
November 13, 2025—Today, the worldwide ARISS team and our global family of ham radio enthusiasts are celebrating a momentous achievement—25 years of continuous amateur radio operations on the International Space Station (ISS). It all started 25 years ago...
ARISS Announces Winners for ISS Contacts (January to June 2026)
November 7, 2025 – ARISS has selected four educational organizations to host an amateur radio contact with astronauts on the International Space Station during the first six months of 2026: The Lewis Center for Educational Research in Apple Valley, California Hilltop...
ARISS to Promote Scouts, HAM 25th in SSTV Spacetacular
November 5, 2025 - ARISS will begin continuously transmitting a series of 12 SSTV images from the International Space Station (ISS) starting November 12 and running through November 19, with two planned pauses for educational contacts. The images will highlight the...
Take Your School to the Final Frontier with an ARISS Contact
October 22, 2025 – Imagine the excitement of having your K-16 students not only learning about space but getting to talk to an astronaut on the International Space Station! You can do it, and the time is now. ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station)...
Going Global for World Space Week 2025
October 13, 2025 – Amateur radio enthusiasts around the world helped make this year’s World Space Week a memorable global event, thanks in part to the enthusiastic response to the ARISS SSTV challenge. From October 3 through October 9 (with the exception of several...
ARISS and SSTV: Celebrating World Space Week
PictureCredit: Ivan Croft October 2, 2025—ARISS will commemorate the 68th anniversary of the launch of the world’s first satellite—Sputnik-1— this week by transmitting a series of space cooperation-themed SSTV images from the International Space Station (ISS) starting...
Ax-4 Update: Amateur Radio Contacts Set to Begin July 3rd
July 2, 2025—NASA has confirmed the six expected ham radio contacts for the Axiom Space Ax-4 crew onboard the International Space Station, starting July 3. Each of the three first-time astronauts—Shubhanshu Shukla (VU2TNI), Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski (SQ7AS) and...
Mission Accomplished! Ax-4 Ham Success
The successful splashdown of the all-ham Ax-4 astronaut crew on the SpaceX Dragon “Grace” in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego early on the morning of July 15 after an 18-day stay on the ISS marked another successful chapter in the evolving story of amateur radio in...
ARISS News Release No. 25-39 ARISS SSTV Event Scheduled for Next Week
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announces an SSTV event to be held next week. The event is scheduled to begin on Monday, July 14 around 09:45 UTC / 5:45 AM ET and to end Sunday, July 20 around 18:00 UTC / 2:00 PM ET. Down-link transmissions...
ARISS News Release No. 25-38 Message to US Educators Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Contact Opportunity Call for Proposals
New Proposal Window is July 9th, 2025 – August 29th, 2025 July 10, 2025 — The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur...
SSTV Series 28 starting soon!
Axiom-4 Amateur Radio Contacts Set to Begin July 3rd
June 30, 2025—NASA has confirmed five of the six expected ham radio contacts for the Axiom Space Ax-4 crew onboard the International Space Station, starting July 3. Each of the three first-time astronauts—Shubhanshu Shukla (VU2TNI), Sławosz UznańskiWiśniewski (SQ7AS)...
Ax-4 Update: Axiom 4 Crew starts operations on ISS
June 26, 2025–Axiom-4 docked with ISS at 6:31 am Eastern Time/10:31 UTC. Hatch opening occurred at 8:14 am Eastern Time/12:14 UTC, starting Ax-4 operations on ISS.
Ax-4 Hams En Route to ISS
SpaceX expects to dock the Dragon module—which Ax-4 Mission Commander Peggy Whitson (KC5ZTD) has named “Grace”—with the ISS at 7 am eastern time on June 26 for the two-week mission. Each of the three first-time astronauts—Shubhanshu Shukla (VU2TNI), Sławosz...
All Hams Onboard for Axiom-4 Mission
ARISS will once again play a key role in space outreach when the Ax-4 mission launches to the International Space Station in the next few days with another all-ham crew, led by record-setting Commander Peggy Whitson (KC5ZTD). Whitson, who has logged more time in space...