Current Status of ISS Stations

as of 12/7/2019

​Columbus Module radios:
  • Ericsson VHF-  Packet system is active. US EVAs for the remainder of the year are TBD. Russian EVA postponed until Jan 2020. (changes for Battery replacement US EVAs still TBD).
  • Ericsson UHF- Stowed. 
  • MarconISSta - Temp. stowed.


Service Module radios:
  • Kenwood D700, station #1 (delivered in 2003) - Stowed.
  • Kenwood D700, station #2 (delivered in 2008) -Stowed.
  • Kenwood D710E (delivered in 2014 for MAI-SSTV) – Supporting Russian scheduled voice contacts. Continuing to support all USOS school contacts. There is a possible worldwide ARISS commemorative SSTV operation on Fri 2019-12-27.


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For up-to-the-minute reports of station status as reported by active hams around the world refer to the ISS Fan Club website.
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Astronaut Peggy Whitson, Expedition 5 Flight Engineer, holds one of the Amateur Radio antennas prior to installation on the ISS. The antenna is one of a series of four which were clamped on handrails around the Russian Service Module (Svesda). This was done during two different EVA's conducted by Russian cosmonauts in January and in August 2002.