An Amateur Radio Station on

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An Amateur Radio Station on Columbus the
European Space Laboratory
Presentation Gaston Bertels ON4WF ARISS-Europe
chairman
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The European Space Laboratory Columbus will be
added to the ISS early 2008. Built in Bremen,
Germany, the module is presently at Kennedy Space
Center
Columbus leaves Bremen for KSC, 28 May 2006
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Amateur Radio on Columbus

• ESA has accepted to host an amateur radio station
  on Columbus Space Laboratory
• Project
• Patch antennas for L/S-bands on the nadir of the
  module
• Two double band antennas fixed on Meteorite
  Debris Panels
• Linear transponder L-band Up, S-band down
• DATV Digital ATV
• Development
• Two coaxial cables have been installed
• Third series of antennas built and submitted to
  qualification tests
• Antennas survived 49G vibration tests (shaker at
  ESTEC broke down)
• One antenna showed weekness after 9 days thermal
  cycles
• (-100C / 200C) in vacuum chamber
• 3 improved antennas are presently being
  manufactured
• Installation planned October 2007

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Amateur Radio on Columbus

• At EADS, Bremen, technicians install ARISS
  coaxial cables

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ARISS L/S-band patch antennas
Front
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ARISS L/S-band patch antennas
Rear
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Funding campaign continues

• Antenna installation costs 150.000 funded by
  ESA
• ARISS has paid 75,000 for antenna development
  and manufacture
• Wroclaw University of Technology estimates the
  project about 300.000, covered by ARISS and
  Polish subsidies
• Certification tests cost 15,000 funded by ESA
• Equipment has to be developed and built
• More funding is needed
• Donations can be done by PayPal at
• http//www.ariss-eu.org/columbus.htm

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