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NASA SkyWatch is a web-based Java application that provides sky watchers worldwide with a picture of when and where the International Space Station, the space shuttle and other spacecraft can be seen with the unaided eye as they pass overhead. This program is a java based program,so it will take some time to load. Also input the city in which you would like to view the International Space Station.****** A Tentative Frequencies list For the Space Station is listed below.*****

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This Information Is Provided By  NASA

 


Liftoff

Live Space Craft Tracking Program (click on Liftoff) This Program is in Java, so Please wait. It will take some time to load   

 


Tentative Frequencies For the International Space Station

Tentative Frequencies

Worldwide downlink for voice and packet

145.80

Worldwide packet uplink

145.99

Region 1 voice uplink

145.20

Region 2 and 3 voice uplink

144.49

Initial operations will only take place on the 2m band.

Call Signs for the ISS

William Shepherd

KD5GSL

Yuri Gidzenko

Unknown

Sergei Krikalev

U5MIR

German callsign

DL0ISS

Russian callsign

RZ3DZR

U.S.A. callsign

NA1SS

Packet station mailbox callsign

RZ3DZR-1

Packet station keyboard callsign

RZ3DZR

For more information on the procedures used to contact the International Space Station, check out the ARISS Expedition 1 home page.