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ARISS ANNOUNCES SSTV EVENT TO BEGIN OCTOBER 3, 2025
The ARISS team is working towards two, short, SSTV activations for October 2025. Both of these are expected to start on a Friday and end on the following Monday. Both will be interrupted for a short (~60 minute?) period to accommodate a school contact.
The first is our traditional celebration of the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite in 1957. SSTV activation is tentatively scheduled for sometime on Friday October 3 and to end on Monday October 6th. SSTV would be paused for a short time (~60 minutes?) on Saturday October 4th for a special student voice contact.
The second SSTV campaign is tentatively scheduled to start on Friday October 17, pause (for ~60 minutes?) for a special student contact on Saturday the 18th, and resume until completion on Monday October 20. This interval roughly coincides with the International Scouting Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) and the SSTV image theme is expected to deal with Scouting.
ARISS expects to offer separate electronic award diplomas for participants who receive at least one image from a campaign and submit it to the SSTV gallery.
Tentative times are:
2025-10-03 1140 UTC start
2025-10-04 1000 UTC pause for a school event
2025-10-04 1100 UTC resume
2025-10-06 TBD UTC stop
Upload your SSTV images to the ARISS SSTV Gallery and get your official ARISS SSTV AWARD!