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The Expedition 56 crew members started off the work week with biomedical studies and human research to understand how living in space impacts their bodies. The crew conducted eye and vision tests, tried on a specialized exercise t-shirt and researched gene expression and protein crystals.
Five of the six International Space Station residents participated in a series of regularly scheduled eye exams and vision checks today. Each crew member covered an eye and read a standard eye chart to test their visual acuity. Next, Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Commander Drew Feustel scanned their eyes with an ultrasound device to look at the optical nerve and retina. Finally, Flight Engineers Ricky Arnold and Alexander Gerst used a Tonometer to measure eye pressure.
Arnold started his morning extracting RNA to help researchers decipher the changes in gene expression that take place in microgravity. Feustel photographed protein crystal samples with a microscope to help doctors develop more effective disease-treating drugs on Earth.
Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) worked out today in a custom SpaceTex-2 t-shirt for an exercise study testing its comfort and thermal relief while working out in space. He then moved on to the GRIP study exploring how an astronaut’s cognitive ability adapts when gripping and manipulating objects in space.
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Dr Chris Bridges M0IEB and Pete Bartram from Surrey Space Centre with the AMSAT-UK payload and some of the ESEO electronics
Dr Chris Bridges M0IEB will be giving a presentation on FUNcube-4, an amateur radio transponder payload on the ESEO satellite mission, to the combined AMSAT-UK Colloquium / RSGB Convention in Milton Keynes at 1:30 pm on Sunday, October 14.
Thanks to the British Amateur Television Club the talk will be streamed live to a global audience at https://batc.org.uk/live/
ESEO is a 20kg class microsat which incorporates experimental payloads from a number of universities around Europe.
The FUNcube payload will provide similar telemetry to its predecessors but will have a more powerful transmitter and thus be even easier to hear. For amateurs, this payload will also provide a single channel L/V transponder for FM.
The downlink will be transmitted on 145.895 MHz and the uplink will be on 1263.5 MHz with a 67Hz PL tone (CTCSS) required. The ESEO project is being funded by the ESA Education Office. The launch date for this mission has not yet been confirmed but “late 2018” is now looking possible.
More information on the ESEO mission can be seen at https://www.esa.int/Education/ESEO
On Sunday, October 14 at 1330 BST (1230 GMT) Chris Bridges M0IEB will be giving a presentation on ESEO to the RSGB Convention in Milton Keynes. The talk will be streamed live to a global audience at https://batc.org.uk/live/
You can book tickets for the RSGB Convention at https://rsgb.org/convention
AMSAT-UK is holding a separate Dinner on the evening of Saturday, October 13, booking details at
https://amsat-uk.org/2018/06/18/colloquium-2018-saturday-gala-dinner/
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