Rabea Rogge LB9NJ / KD3AID – Photo credit DLR
A SpaceX rocket carrying radio amateur Rabea Rogge LB9NJ / KD3AID and 3 other astronauts launched from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on April 1 at 0146 GMT on the Fram2 mission. It is the first polar-orbit human spaceflight mission to explore Earth.
Rabea will be transmitting amateur radio Slow Scan TV images from space during the mission.
Watch a recording made by Robbie Ei2iP of the amateur radio downlink during the contact made on April 1 at 0728 GMT between Fram2 astronaut Rabea Rogge LB9NJ / KD3AID and students at the Technical University Berlin.
ARISS will provide special commemorative certificates for those who upload their Fam2 SSTV images to the ARISS SSTV Gallery. Certificates will be delivered after the completion of the Fram2 mission.
There are several challenges in receiving the images, the low transmit power, variations of antenna orientation, and a short, 3-day mission duration, with only a limited time assigned for the SSTV operation. Are you up for the challenge? 
Operations Frequency: 437.550 MHz FM (+/- 10 kHz Doppler shift).
SSTV Mode: Robot 36
ARISS are livestreaming orbital predictions for the Fram2 mission at http://live.ariss.org/
Orbital predictions https://www.amsat.org/track/
Fram2 TLEs (also known as Keplerian, or Orbital Elements) https://www.ariss.org/keps.html
Upload your received pictures to https/ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV/
Fram2Ham https://fram2ham.com/
First human Spaceflight to Earth’s polar regions https://f2.com/
Fram2Ham on Discord https://discord.com/invite/GYQzmSh5sp
Student competition details https://fram2ham.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/amapay_user_manual-ver-2-7-2025.pdf
Follow Rabea on X https://x.com/rprogge
Follow Chun Wang on X https://x.com/satofishi
Follow ARISS on X https://x.com/ARISS_Intl
Follow AMSAT-UK on X https://x.com/amsatuk
